Robert Murphy
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery · Charleston, SCNPI 1477797140
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $24,715 of the $40,451 with a category attached, or 61.1%. Medtronic accounts for 77.4% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $26,150, more than ten times the $1,317 reported in 2019.
Across 133 payments — averaging $304.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$31K
- Stryker$2K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Highridge Medical LLC$2K
- Orthopediatrics Corp.$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$747
- plus $1K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$24,71561%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,5006%
- Travel & lodging$9,60624%
- Food & beverage$3,6309%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 70 | $31,298 |
| Stryker | 8 | $2,444 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 19 | $1,907 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 6 | $1,704 |
| Orthopediatrics Corp. | 7 | $1,159 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 9 | $747 |
| Wishbone Medical Inc. | 2 | $412 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $378 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 1 | $142 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $57 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $56 |
| Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $37 |
| Novartis | 1 | $32 |
| Biogen | 1 | $26 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $13 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$20,150
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$5,753
- The Tether$2,195
- UNID_PASS$1,639
- MAGEC$1,017
- SPACE-D SYSTEM 5.5/6.0 VOYAGER INSTRUMENT SET$448
- Magellan$378
- PediGuard$375
- REFLECT/REFLECT HDE$360
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$215
- MESA$158
- AVS NAVIGATOR$144
- Tools - WFS$142
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$116
How this compares
Too few pediatric orthopaedic surgery providers in South Carolinato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other pediatric orthopaedic surgery in Charleston
- Sara VannortwickCharleston$35K
- Norman WardCharleston$2K
- Frederick ReedCharleston$125
- Richard GrossCharleston$125
- Thomas GibsonGreenville$28K
- David LazarusGreenville$23K
- Mark LockeColumbia$4K
- Michael HoranColumbia$3K
- Franklin GettysGreenville$723
- Michael BeckishGreenville$701
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.