Tyler Watters, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Raleigh, NCNPI 1669797353
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (57.4%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc. at 57.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $4,630 and has fallen 72.6% since, to $1,269 in 2025.
Across 139 payments — averaging $114.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.$9K
- Zimmer Biomet$3K
- Stryker$1K
- KCI USA, Inc.$899
- Southtech Orthopedics$318
- Amgen$307
- plus $937 from 17 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $1725.00 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.
- Novartis$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,17557%
- Travel & lodging$1,53810%
- Food & beverage$4,85830%
- Education$4003%
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. | 23 | $9,245 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 37 | $2,813 |
| Stryker | 19 | $1,452 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $899 |
| Southtech Orthopedics | 1 | $318 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 31 | $307 |
| Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC | 1 | $226 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 2 | $165 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $144 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $73 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 4 | $44 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $34 |
| Arthrex | 2 | $30 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $16 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $14 |
| Orthogenrx Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Omnilife Science, Inc | 1 | $11 |
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.
- PREVENA$800
- MAKO$654
- ROSA-Knee$533
- Persona Revision$410
- Persona$248
- T2 ALPHA$170
- T2$144
- ROSA$129
- Photodynamic Bone Stabilization Procedure Pack$111
- G7$105
How this compares
$15,970 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 140 | $3,454 |
| Oxaprozin | 13 | $1,977 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 86 | $1,375 |
| Meloxicam | 397 | $1,338 |
| Dexamethasone Sodium Phosphate | 53 | $777 |
| Methylprednisolone | 69 | $390 |
| Amoxicillin | 123 | $173 |
| Cephalexin | 12 | $152 |
| Gabapentin | 18 | $116 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 29 | $50 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 19 | $28 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Raleigh
- Gurvinder DeolRaleigh$2.7M
- Rhett HallowsRaleigh$388K
- Karl SchweitzerRaleigh$197K
- Adedayo AshanaRaleigh$181K
- Thomas FehringCharlotte$18.3M
- Walter BeaverCharlotte$7.4M
- Robert AndersonCharlotte$6.6M
- William JiranekDurham$6.4M
- John MasonCharlotte$5.7M
- Thomas VailDurham$5.7M
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.