Ryan Gentry, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Raleigh, NCNPI 1427491257
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (54.3%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 29.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $8,519 and has fallen 83.2% since, to $1,429 in 2025.
Across 362 payments — averaging $106.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$11K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$10K
- Cerapedics Inc.$8K
- Globus Medical$4K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Si-bone, Inc.$2K
- plus $3K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,0005%
- Travel & lodging$15,61140%
- Food & beverage$21,01054%
- Education$650%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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) | 165 | $11,310 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 47 | $9,915 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 33 | $7,516 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 39 | $3,586 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 36 | $2,254 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 13 | $1,595 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $716 |
| Stryker | 8 | $438 |
| Abbott | 4 | $189 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 2 | $177 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $168 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $153 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $140 |
| Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC | 1 | $112 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $106 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $99 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| BD | 1 | $43 |
| Vertex | 1 | $21 |
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.
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$13,068
- Other - Miscellaneous$7,148
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$1,672
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$1,164
- iFuse Implant$1,004
- i-FACTOR Putty$956
- Sable$904
- MULTIPLE$718
- RELINE$671
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$651
- Simplify Cervical Artificial Disc$538
- INCEPTIV$538
- OSTEOCOOL RF ABLATION$520
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$513
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$502
- INVICTUS OPEN$471
- MazorX - Renaissance$405
- SYMPHONY$388
- Excelsius3D Imaging System$292
- LIF$290
How this compares
$38,686 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 32 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in North Carolina.
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Medicare billing
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 | 66 | $857 |
| Methylprednisolone | 11 | $60 |
| Meloxicam | 21 | $55 |
| Methocarbamol | 11 | $41 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Raleigh
- Conor ReganRaleigh$149K
- Cary IdlerRaleigh$33K
- Paul SuhRaleigh$16K
- Peter PassiasDurham$553K
- Daniel WilliamsPinehurst$443K
- Alexander LemonsPinehurst$389K
- Daniel CavanaughChapel Hill$246K
- Olumide DanisaDurham$198K
- Michael MooreGreensboro$83K
- Phillip HorneCary$45K
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.