Trauma Surgery in North Carolina
19 providers, $116,171 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 trauma surgery clinicians in North Carolina
Across 15 trauma surgery clinicians in North Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $401,874 in total — an average of $26,792 each, of which $26,792 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
- 1James HolmesWinston Salem$79,420
- 2Matthew PainterWinston Salem$12,184
- 3Steven SatterlyFort Bragg$6,868
- 4Jason McCarttFort Bragg$4,505
- 5Daniel LammersChapel Hill$3,210
- 6Ronald HardinFort Bragg$3,013
- 7Jeffrey AbramsRaleigh$1,955
- 8Brant ClatterbuckAsheville$1,375
- 9Martin AveryWinston Salem$1,370
- 10Robert ConradFort Bragg$552
- 11Carl HaischGreenville$305
- 12Michelle BrownsteinGreenville$276
- 13Rachel NiehuusChapel Hill$243
- 14Preston RichChapel Hill$201
- 15Eric ToschlogGreenville$190
- 16Michael BardGreenville$186
- 17Mark NewellGreenville$148
- 18Douglas PokornyCamp Lejeune$146
- 19Bruce CairnsChapel Hill$23