Orthopaedic Trauma in North Carolina
16 providers, $1,208,874 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 orthopaedic trauma clinicians in North Carolina
Across 12 orthopaedic trauma clinicians in North Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,006,138 in total — an average of $83,845 each, of which $81,975 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
- 1Joseph HsuCharlotte$483,446
- 2Mark GageDurham$377,667
- 3Christian PeanDurham$166,164
- 4Holly PilsonWinston Salem$85,501
- 5Timothy HarrisRaleigh$26,606
- 6Keith WhitlockRaleigh$14,970
- 7Andrew ChenChapel Hill$14,255
- 8Sarat GangaCary$9,491
- 9Kendall MasadaCharlotte$8,603
- 10Phillip GrisdelaCamp Lejeune$6,245
- 11Sophia TravenCharlotte$5,572
- 12James BurgessFort Bragg$4,314
- 13John RichardsCamp Lejeune$2,962
- 14Bruce BrownerMebane$1,090
- 15Louis LewandowskiCamp Lejeune$1,034
- 16Justin KaukRaleigh$952