Samuel Wellman, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Durham, NCNPI 1992836837
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 449 payments — averaging $2803.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$713K
- Smith+Nephew$258K
- Stryker$186K
- Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.$54K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$24K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$21K
- plus $3K from 9 others
Across 21 payments — averaging $7577.57 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.
- Medacta USA, Inc.$155K
- Zimmer Biomet$5K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$4,9463%
- Consulting fees$76,03847%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,5002%
- Travel & lodging$8,2685%
- Food & beverage$7,4145%
- Education$62,31539%
- Gifts$2370%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 150 | $713,437 |
| Smith+Nephew | 52 | $257,737 |
| Stryker | 122 | $185,759 |
| Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc. | 86 | $54,483 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 12 | $23,969 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 15 | $20,721 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 3 | $2,613 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $87 |
| Linkbio Corp | 1 | $73 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 2 | $27 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $20 |
| BD | 1 | $14 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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.
- Avenir$64,036
- Arcos$53,940
- G7$36,790
- Journey II$12,863
- TRIATHLON$9,141
- Legion$3,413
- RESTORATION$2,625
- Echo$2,400
- Persona$2,284
- SECUR-FIT$2,125
- LEGION TKS$1,575
- TRITANIUM$1,500
- BI-METRIC HIP SYSTEM$1,200
- ACCULIF$549
- MAKO$137
- mymobility Platform$104
How this compares
$1,258,973 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 845 orthopaedic surgery providers in North Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 27 | $147 |
| Meloxicam | 70 | $117 |
| Gabapentin | 12 | $59 |
| Amoxicillin | 14 | $14 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Durham
- William JiranekDurham$6.4M
- Thomas VailDurham$5.7M
- Mark EasleyDurham$4.2M
- Samuel AdamsDurham$3.3M
- Michael BolognesiDurham$2.5M
- Christopher BrownDurham$2.3M
- David MusanteDurham$2.2M
- James NunleyDurham$1.7M
- James DeorioDurham$1.3M
- Richard MatherDurham$843K
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.