Has Todd Chapman, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $185,324 in general payments to Todd Chapman, MD across 132 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Todd Chapman, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Todd Chapman, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Todd Chapman, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Charlotte, NCNPI 1558504266

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $120,629 of the $185,324 with a category attached, or 65.1%. Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 92.9% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. 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.

$185,324in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 132 payments — averaging $1403.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alphatec Spine, Inc$172K
Globus Medical$4K
Cutting Edge Spine, LLC$3K
Synthes GmbH$2K
Medtronic$2K
Nevro Corp.$1K
plus $2K from 8 others

$50,854in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 50 payments — averaging $1017.07 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.

Globus Medical$26K
Si-bone, Inc.$25K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$120,62965%
Consulting fees$43,92524%
Speaking & faculty fees$1,7501%
Travel & lodging$14,0368%
Food & beverage$4,8853%
Education$990%

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
Alphatec Spine, Inc	42	$172,125
Globus Medical(2 entities)	13	$4,159
Cutting Edge Spine, LLC	2	$2,720
Synthes GmbH	2	$1,750
Medtronic	18	$1,501
Nevro Corp.	18	$1,395
Abbott	5	$662
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	24	$654
Cerapedics Inc.	2	$211
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$60
Next Science LLC	1	$46
Orthopediatrics Corp.	1	$17
Pfizer	1	$13
Trackx Technology, 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.

Other - Miscellaneous$103,973
INVICTUS OPEN$60,486
Invictus MIS$5,981
TLIF$2,800
CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$823
OsseoScrew$734
Senza$668
Excelsius - GPS$627
Omnia$505
ETERNA$487
LIF$437
Pulse$236
UNID_PASS$229
Spinal-Stim$177
PROCLAIM$168
Cervical-STIM$150
XLIF$149
Simplify Cervical Artificial Disc$115
I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$112

How this compares

$185,324 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 845 orthopaedic surgery providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$289,370

Medicare patients

376

Services billed

1,251

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
Gabapentin	115	$1,066
Tizanidine Hcl	89	$462
Pregabalin	17	$382
Celecoxib	20	$377
Oxycodone Hcl	53	$310
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	42	$301
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	42	$197
Ibuprofen	16	$192
Methocarbamol	20	$162
Tramadol Hcl	47	$151
Naproxen	16	$142
Methylprednisolone	15	$104
Meloxicam	18	$36
Diazepam	14	$20

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Charlotte

Thomas FehringCharlotte$18.3M
Walter BeaverCharlotte$7.4M
Robert AndersonCharlotte$6.6M
John MasonCharlotte$5.7M
William DavisCharlotte$5.2M
John EllingtonCharlotte$4.9M
Carroll JonesCharlotte$3.6M
John MasonisCharlotte$3.4M
Bruce CohenCharlotte$2.4M
Anthony KwonCharlotte$1.9M

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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.

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