Neurosurgery in North Carolina
8 providers, $197,929 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays neurosurgery clinicians in North Carolina
Across 8 neurosurgery clinicians in North Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $755,983 in total — an average of $94,498 each, of which $94,498 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1George HuffmonWilmington$192,040
- 2Stephen HarwardDurham$3,694
- 3Stephen DalrympleNew Bern$732
- 4Mark HeldNew Bern$708
- 5Alexa BramallDurham$538
- 6Michael DirksPinehurst$216
- 7Matthew EwendChapel Hill$0
- 8Herbert FuchsDurham$0