Stephen Lucey, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Asheboro, NCNPI 1932152527
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (50.9%), consulting fees and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Arthrex accounts for 84.0% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $68,306 and has fallen 72.2% since, to $18,967 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 127 payments — averaging $1087.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$116K
- Encore Medical, LP$21K
- Zimmer Biomet$460
- Stryker$394
- Piedmont Plus Innovation$191
- Johnson & Johnson$57
- plus $147 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$70,23951%
- Consulting fees$38,74728%
- Speaking & faculty fees$19,39014%
- Travel & lodging$7,2385%
- Food & beverage$2,5142%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 90 | $116,066 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 11 | $20,813 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $460 |
| Stryker | 7 | $394 |
| Piedmont Plus Innovation | 4 | $191 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $57 |
| Fortis Surgical, LLC | 1 | $37 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Microport Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Conformis, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $19 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $17 |
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.
- ARTHREX$103,121
- DJO SURGICAL$83,251
- ARTHROPLASTY IMPLANTS PARTIAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY UNI KNEE$7,292
- ARTHROPLASTY INSTRUMENTS KNEE ARTHROPLASTY UNI KNEE$6,334
- ARTHROPLASTY INSTRUMENTS KNEE & HIP ARTHROPLASTY UNI KNEE$5,622
- ARTHROPLASTY IMPLANTS KNEE & HIP ARTHROPLASTY UNI KNEE$2,625
- Persona$341
- TRIATHLON$269
- ARTHROPLASTY IMPLANTS KNEE ARTHROPLASTY UNI KNEE$106
How this compares
$138,127 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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Asheboro
- Thomas FehringCharlotte$18.3M
- Walter BeaverCharlotte$7.4M
- Robert AndersonCharlotte$6.6M
- William JiranekDurham$6.4M
- John MasonCharlotte$5.7M
- Thomas VailDurham$5.7M
- William DavisCharlotte$5.2M
- John EllingtonCharlotte$4.9M
- Mark EasleyDurham$4M
- Carroll JonesCharlotte$3.6M
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.