Robert Olson
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Gastonia, NCNPI 1235102971
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by ownership interests: $412,500 of the $473,177 with a category attached, or 87.2%. Paragon 28, Inc. accounts for 87.2% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $429,374 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $951 in 2025. Among foot & ankle surgery clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 80 payments — averaging $5914.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Paragon 28, Inc.$413K
- Flower Orthopedics Coporation$28K
- In2bones USA, LLC$22K
- Maxx Health Inc$5K
- Linvatec Corporation$4K
- Ossio Inc$2K
- plus $387 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,8911%
- Consulting fees$46,17510%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,0000%
- Travel & lodging$6,2611%
- Food & beverage$3,3501%
- Ownership interest$412,50087%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $412,500 |
| Flower Orthopedics Coporation | 12 | $28,061 |
| In2bones USA, LLC | 29 | $22,133 |
| Maxx Health Inc | 13 | $4,963 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 10 | $3,503 |
| Ossio Inc | 2 | $1,631 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 2 | $128 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $60 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $59 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 3 | $49 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Celularity Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $19 |
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.
- CoLink$16,319
- TriWay TTC Nail$3,859
- COLINK PLATING SYSTEM$2,457
- Summa Ortho Compression Device$2,000
- NeoSpan$1,635
- OptOssol$1,200
- CoLag$1,174
- IBS$1,157
- COLINK NEOFUSE$951
- COLINK SFX$951
- AlloAid Allograft$848
- Quantum Total Ankle$309
How this compares
$473,177 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 196 foot & ankle surgery providers in North Carolina.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Gastonia
- Thurmond LanierGastonia$14K
- Austin MatthewsLumberton$279K
- Matthew DzurikWilmington$142K
- Kristen McGinnessFayetteville$123K
- William RespessGreenville$79K
- Brian FutrellCary$71K
- Kenneth BloomMooresville$53K
- Stephen HeislerChapel Hill$49K
- Benjamin UmbelMorganton$37K
- Andrew HanselmanWake Forest$30K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.