Has Robert Rodger, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $17,191 in general payments to Robert Rodger, MD across 111 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Robert Rodger, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Robert Rodger, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Robert Rodger, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Wilmington, NCNPI 1811953474

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $12,500 of the $17,191 with a category attached, or 72.7%. Medtronic accounts for 92.2% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $13,043 and has fallen 84.5% since, to $2,021 in 2025.

$17,191in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 111 payments — averaging $154.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$16K
Johnson & Johnson$372
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$272
Si-bone, Inc.$255
Abbott$240
Cerapedics Inc.$138
plus $59 from 3 others

$32,500in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $32,500 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Medtronic$33K

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$12,50073%
Travel & lodging$1,2297%
Food & beverage$3,46220%

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(2 entities)	76	$15,856
Johnson & Johnson	10	$372
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	4	$272
Si-bone, Inc.	9	$255
Abbott	8	$240
Cerapedics Inc.	1	$138
Radius Health, Inc.	1	$29
Globus Medical	1	$15
Pfizer	1	$15

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.

PERIMETER$5,000
DIVERGENCE-L$2,629
MAZOR X SYSTEM$1,206
GRAFTONAND GRAFTON PLUSDEMINERALIZED BONE MATRIX (DBM)$140
I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$138
PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$132
PROCLAIM$122
Vivigen MIS Delivery System$111
VIPER$111
Spine & Trauma 3D Navigation$111
NAVLOCK$111
CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$107
MazorX - Renaissance$102

How this compares

$17,191 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 32 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$224,389

Medicare patients

369

Services billed

1,254

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Gabapentin	45	$631
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	35	$282
Celecoxib	12	$256
Tramadol Hcl	38	$148
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	19	$129
Meloxicam	37	$126
Oxycodone Hcl	13	$66
Methylprednisolone	11	$56
Methocarbamol	13	$55
Diazepam	17	$11

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Wilmington

Young LuWilmington$8K
Jon MillerWilmington$42
Peter PassiasDurham$553K
Daniel WilliamsPinehurst$443K
Alexander LemonsPinehurst$389K
Daniel CavanaughChapel Hill$246K
Olumide DanisaDurham$198K
Conor ReganRaleigh$149K
Michael MooreGreensboro$83K
Phillip HorneCary$45K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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