Shawn Hocker, MD
Sports Medicine · Wilmington, NCNPI 1942234240
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $28,500 of the $37,973 with a category attached, or 75.1%. Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc. accounts for 88.7% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $10,909 and has fallen 77.0% since, to $2,504 in 2025. Among sports medicine 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 102 payments — averaging $372.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.$34K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Southtech Orthopedics$1K
- Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC$341
- Arthrex$302
- Think Surgical, Inc.$222
- plus $916 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$3,4489%
- Consulting fees$28,50075%
- Travel & lodging$1,7355%
- Food & beverage$4,29011%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc. | 56 | $33,682 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 13 | $1,325 |
| Southtech Orthopedics | 2 | $1,184 |
| Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC | 5 | $341 |
| Arthrex | 4 | $302 |
| Think Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $222 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 3 | $153 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $148 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $145 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $92 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $60 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $41 |
| Stryker | 2 | $40 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $37 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Amgen | 1 | $21 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Avanos Medical | 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.
How this compares
$37,973 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 158 sports medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 1,333 | $3,677 |
| Methylprednisolone | 569 | $2,841 |
| Celecoxib | 18 | $293 |
| Mupirocin | 21 | $192 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 20 | $184 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 16 | $118 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 15 | $99 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 11 | $71 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 26 | $60 |
| Amoxicillin | 55 | $53 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 11 | $13 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Wilmington
- Scott DartWilmington$21K
- Dale BoydWilmington$15K
- John O'MalleyWilmington$15K
- Robert BoswellWilmington$7K
- William SuttonWilmington$3K
- Brian WatermanWinston Salem$360K
- Allston StubbsWinston Salem$184K
- Robert BoykinAsheville$126K
- Tally EddingsAsheville$109K
- Rebecca BassettGreensboro$69K
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.