Sergio Mendoza Lattes, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Durham, NCNPI 1255324372
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $188,068 of the $286,071 with a category attached, or 65.7%. Globus Medical accounts for 86.4% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $61,633 and has fallen 62.9% since, to $22,836 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 198 payments — averaging $1444.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$247K
- Amplify Surgical, Inc.$15K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$10K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$8K
- Medtronic$3K
- Arthrex$2K
- plus $1K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$188,06866%
- Consulting fees$14,5825%
- Speaking & faculty fees$39,62514%
- Travel & lodging$37,00813%
- Food & beverage$6,7872%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 83 | $247,249 |
| Amplify Surgical, Inc. | 18 | $14,732 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 28 | $9,829 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 10 | $8,062 |
| Medtronic | 30 | $2,739 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $2,000 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $530 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $171 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Spineology Inc. | 2 | $144 |
| Stryker | 1 | $132 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 1 | $80 |
| Spineguard, Inc. | 1 | $73 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 9 | $49 |
| Abbott | 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.
- Excelsius - GPS$73,305
- Excelsius GPS Interbody$45,310
- Excelsius3D Imaging System$40,129
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$37,198
- RISE-L$17,874
- CREO$10,005
- MARS 3V$9,892
- dualPortal$8,395
- Other - Miscellaneous$7,996
- EXPEDIUM$7,685
- INTERCONTINENTAL$7,000
- dualX$5,905
- TRANSCONTINENTAL$2,975
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$1,199
- ELSA$386
- IdentiTi$325
- SUSTAIN O$304
- Orbit-R Anterior Lumbar Disc$269
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$215
- BIOLOGICS$199
How this compares
$286,071 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 118 | $1,503 |
| Enoxaparin Sodium | 17 | $1,407 |
| Gabapentin | 107 | $1,204 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 126 | $1,004 |
| Methylprednisolone | 63 | $486 |
| Pregabalin | 21 | $394 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 43 | $271 |
| Celecoxib | 13 | $147 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 46 | $136 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 17 | $118 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 15 | $79 |
| Diazepam | 11 | $7 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Durham
- William JiranekDurham$6.4M
- Thomas VailDurham$5.7M
- Mark EasleyDurham$4M
- Michael BolognesiDurham$2.3M
- Christopher BrownDurham$2.3M
- Samuel AdamsDurham$1.8M
- James NunleyDurham$1.6M
- James DeorioDurham$1.3M
- Richard MatherDurham$711K
- Marc RichardDurham$643K
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.