Has William Hunter, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,314,304 in general payments to William Hunter, MD across 274 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 William Hunter, 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 William Hunter, 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.

William Hunter, MD

Neurological Surgery · Gastonia, NCNPI 1427005420

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,314,304in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 274 payments — averaging $4796.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$1.1M
Alphatec Spine, Inc$243K
Flospine LLC$4K
Precision Spine, Inc.$2K
Intrinsic Therapeutics$598
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$512
plus $4K from 38 others

$15,425in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $15,425 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$15K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$1,268,82097%
Consulting fees$27,2502%
Travel & lodging$12,1711%
Food & beverage$5,8650%
Education$1990%

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
Globus Medical(2 entities)	91	$1,061,271
Alphatec Spine, Inc	35	$242,727
Flospine LLC	6	$3,892
Precision Spine, Inc.	3	$1,550
Intrinsic Therapeutics	12	$598
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	33	$512
Intelligent Implant Systems, LLC	1	$500
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	11	$452
Merz North America, Inc.	2	$336
Stryker	5	$307
Nevro Corp.	7	$250
Wenzel Spine, Inc.	5	$184
Centinel Spine, LLC	1	$176
Medtronic	6	$155
Medacta USA, Inc.	4	$146
DJO, LLC	8	$120
Baxter Healthcare	2	$115
Johnson & Johnson	2	$90
7d Surgical Inc.	2	$78
Spineology Inc.	1	$77
Sanara Medtech Inc.	3	$69
Si-bone, Inc.	3	$62
Smith+Nephew	2	$55
Novocure Inc.	2	$54
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	1	$48
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$48
Cerapedics Inc.	2	$47
Convatec Inc.	2	$43
Abbott	3	$41
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	2	$39
Theragen, Inc.	2	$30
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$24
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$23
Trevena, Inc.	1	$22
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$22
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	1	$20
Bioventus LLC	1	$19
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$18
Baudax Bio Inc.	1	$18
Avanos Medical	1	$17
Highridge Medical LLC	1	$17
Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$15
Radius Health, Inc.	1	$12
Neuronetics, Inc.	1	$6

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.

TLX$1,051,247
XLX$654,860
Other - Miscellaneous$192,643
INVICTUS OPEN$6,942
Lateral Inline$6,250
Expandable TLIF System$2,000
Ti-Largo-Cervical Interbody System$1,050
MD Vue Lateral Access System$1,000
Ti-Largo Cervical Cage System$842
Direct Look Lateral System$525
MIS Inline Lateral$515
SHURFIT INTERBODY DEVICE$500
BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$408
XLIF$331
ELSA$325
LIF$217
PRODISC C VIVO$176
NSE - SONOPET$166
Excelsius3D Imaging System$147
Invictus MIS$137

How this compares

$1,314,304 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 196 neurological surgery providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$252,974

Medicare patients

256

Services billed

936

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
Tizanidine Hcl	111	$1,067
Gabapentin	43	$551
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	67	$515
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	18	$218
Baclofen	32	$175
Celecoxib	14	$149
Ibuprofen	13	$129
Prednisone	45	$126
Naproxen	11	$89

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Gastonia

Robert IsaacsDurham$6.6M
Christopher ShaffreyDurham$4.5M
Domagoj CoricCharlotte$4.1M
Kimberly LivingstonRaleigh$3.4M
John ThomasWilmington$2.4M
Paul KimCharlotte$1.8M
Alexander PowersKernersville$1.7M
Vibhor KrishnaChapel Hill$1.6M
Charles BranchAdvance$1.6M
Courtney GoodwinDurham$1.3M

See the full list for North 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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