Has Ty Carter, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,235 in general payments to Ty Carter, MD across 77 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 Ty Carter, 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 Ty Carter, 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.

Ty Carter, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Aiken, SCNPI 1811968688

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,031 of the $5,235 with a category attached, or 77.0%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Nevro Corp. at 29.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,214 and has fallen 90.4% since, to $213 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $31,467.

$5,235in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 77 payments — averaging $67.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Nevro Corp.$2K
Medtronic$1K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$1K
Boston Scientific$298
Intrinsic Therapeutics$283
Globus Medical$236
plus $446 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,20423%
Food & beverage$4,03177%

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
Nevro Corp.	16	$1,526
Medtronic(2 entities)	32	$1,356
Alphatec Spine, Inc	6	$1,090
Boston Scientific	3	$298
Intrinsic Therapeutics	4	$283
Globus Medical(2 entities)	3	$236
Centinel Spine, LLC	1	$150
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	2	$94
Abbott	4	$73
Spine Wave, Inc.	1	$32
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$23
Ossdsign USA Incorporated	1	$22
Stryker	1	$21
GE HealthCare	1	$17
Wound Management Technologies, Inc	1	$13

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.

Omnia$811
Other - Miscellaneous$659
BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$471
INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$400
Senza$263
Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$262
CLYDESDALE PTC SPINAL SYSTEM$209
PRODISC C VIVO$150
O-ARM$150
KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$118

How this compares

$5,235 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 32 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$298,941

Medicare patients

586

Services billed

1,962

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
EliquisApixaban	11	$6,304
Gabapentin	374	$3,767
Pregabalin	131	$3,290
Methylprednisolone	293	$1,984
Methocarbamol	229	$1,799
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	154	$1,548
Celecoxib	60	$1,436
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	100	$1,020
Meloxicam	319	$898
Tizanidine Hcl	82	$420
Diclofenac Sodium	17	$252
Tramadol Hcl	76	$247
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	37	$224
Oxycodone Hcl	21	$160
Hydromorphone Hcl	22	$132

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Aiken

Steven PolettiMt Pleasant$3M
Donald JohnsonMt Pleasant$2.9M
Gene MasseyMyrtle Beach$1.2M
Rakesh ChokshiFlorence$727K
Willie EdwardsFlorence$687K
Ivan LamottaColumbia$299K
Daniel ReidConway$152K
Timothy BryanMt Pleasant$135K
James AymondCharleston$91K
Michael PeelleColumbia$77K

See the full list for South Carolina →

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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