William McCormick, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · South Charleston, WVNPI 1548502354
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,912 of the $2,854 with a category attached, or 67.0%. Arthrex accounts for 72.6% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,105 and has fallen 94.7% since, to $111 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in WV, where the typical reported total is $2,681.
Across 27 payments — averaging $105.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$2K
- Smith+Nephew$441
- Great Lakes Orthopedics$230
- True North Surgical Inc$92
- Avanos Medical$19
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,91267%
- Food & beverage$94133%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 19 | $2,073 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $441 |
| Great Lakes Orthopedics | 2 | $230 |
| True North Surgical Inc | 1 | $92 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $19 |
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.
- Bioraptor Knotless$370
- Q-FIX$370
- ACCUPASS DIRECT Crescent XL$370
- Suturefix$370
How this compares
$2,854 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 93 orthopaedic surgery providers in West Virginia.
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 | $400 |
| Meloxicam | 45 | $139 |
| Amoxicillin | 12 | $9 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in South Charleston
- Bruce HauptSouth Charleston$13K
- Matthew StoverSouth Charleston$10K
- Freddie PersingerSouth Charleston$7K
- Phillip SurfaceSouth Charleston$2K
- Benjamin FryeMorgantown$329K
- Chad LavenderCharleston$312K
- Steven LochowHuntington$146K
- Joshua SykesBridgeport$108K
- Scott DaffnerMorgantown$102K
- John CromptonHuntington$78K
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.