Timothy Novosel, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Wilmington, NCNPI 1518072156
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (56.2%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimmer Biomet at 46.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,234 and has fallen 80.7% since, to $238 in 2025.
Across 57 payments — averaging $39.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Davol Inc.$271
- Smith+Nephew$244
- Johnson & Johnson$168
- Merck$92
- Acell, Inc.$71
- plus $365 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$93741%
- Food & beverage$1,27956%
- Education$382%
- Entertainment$221%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 11 | $1,065 |
| Davol Inc. | 7 | $271 |
| Smith+Nephew | 12 | $244 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $168 |
| Merck | 5 | $92 |
| Acell, Inc. | 4 | $71 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $61 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $59 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $56 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $30 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $28 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $26 |
| Vertex | 1 | $25 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $13 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- RibFix Blu$842
- PROGEL$122
How this compares
$2,276 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 29 surgical critical care 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.
Other surgical critical care in Wilmington
- Andrew NunnWinston Salem$149K
- Cabrini SutherlandMatthews$34K
- Jiselle BockShelby$29K
- Oluwabukola OlatubosunCharlotte$15K
- Thomas GaviganCharlotte$12K
- Rafael Torres FajardoCharlotte$7K
- Amirreza MotameniRaleigh$5K
- Addison MayCharlotte$3K
- Justin CironeCharlotte$2K
- William ShillinglawAsheville$2K
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.