Walter Beaver, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Charlotte, NCNPI 1679555692
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $7,258,645 of the $7,440,360 with a category attached, or 97.6%. Stryker accounts for 100.0% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,386,388 and has fallen 72.7% since, to $378,138 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 418 payments — averaging $17,800 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$7.4M
- Innovation Technologies Inc$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$369
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$203
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$185
- Lima USA, Inc.$171
- plus $798 from 7 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $4430.24 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.
- Stryker$9K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$7,258,64598%
- Consulting fees$108,5001%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5000%
- Travel & lodging$61,6891%
- Food & beverage$10,0270%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 401 | $7,437,134 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $1,500 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 5 | $369 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $203 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $185 |
| Lima USA, Inc. | 1 | $171 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $162 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $137 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $132 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $116 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $109 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
How this compares
$7,440,360 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 | 13 | $545 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Charlotte
- Thomas FehringCharlotte$18.3M
- 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
- William GriffinCharlotte$1.8M
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.