Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Andrew Kersten

Sports Medicine Hendersonville, NC Medical Doctor

NPI 1699975474 CMS profile 348978

800 Fleming St, Hendersonville, NC 28791

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General payments

$41,107

183 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Andrew Kersten of Hendersonville, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $41,107 across 183 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 83rd percentile of Sports Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $3,270 26
2024 General $13,330 30
2023 General $8,006 40
2022 General $2,608 20
2021 General $5,715 22
2020 General $4,197 26
2019 General $3,982 19

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Andrew Kersten
  • Sports Medicine median
  • Middle half of Sports Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Andrew Kersten were reported at $3,270. Among 2,404 Sports Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $664 and the middle half received between $172 and $3,055.

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Year Andrew Kersten Sports Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $3,982 $1,176 $199–$4,249 $163
2020 $4,197 $708 $96–$2,890 $114
2021 $5,715 $1,213 $152–$3,994 $132
2022 $2,608 $1,230 $159–$3,998 $149
2023 $8,006 $584 $146–$2,836 $160
2024 $13,330 $628 $163–$3,168 $164
2025 $3,270 $664 $172–$3,055 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Arthrex, Inc. $32,794 82 payments
  2. Peerless Surgical Inc. $6,615 51 payments
  3. Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $439 7 payments
  4. Stryker Corporation $210 7 payments
  5. DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $182 3 payments
  6. Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $102 4 payments
  7. Smith+Nephew, Inc. $99 1 payment
  8. Inari Medical, Inc. $94 4 payments
  9. Orthofix Medical, Inc. $88 3 payments
  10. Onkos Surgical, Inc. $87 1 payment
  11. Other $397 20 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $14,169 10 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $9,752 11 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $7,918 24 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $5,571 135 payments
  5. Education $3,698 3 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Persona Knees $245 3 payments
  2. ARTHROPLASTY INSTRUMENTS SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY & FRACTURE VIP TECHNOLOGY $175 1 payment
  3. Persona Knees $147 1 payment
  4. ATTUNE $143 1 payment
  5. ARTHREX Arthroplasty - Implants - Revers Total Shoulder - Revers $134 2 payments
  6. Arthrex Arthroplasty - Implants - Partial Knee Arthroplasty - Uni Knee $115 1 payment
  7. JOURNAVX $102 4 payments
  8. Regeneten $99 1 payment
  9. CLOTTRIEVER BOLD CATHETER $95 4 payments
  10. CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT $94 4 payments
  11. Other $1,194 54 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 6 drugs

Part D claims

445

Median for Sports Medicine: 144

Drug cost

$2,531

Median for Sports Medicine: $1,027

Branded share of claims

26.3%

Median for Sports Medicine: 0%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Celecoxib Generic 56 $886
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 117 $735
Cephalexin Generic 51 $321
Meloxicam Generic 108 $273
Methylprednisolone Generic 36 $219
Amoxicillin Generic 77 $97

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 1,691 Part D prescribers listed as Sports Medicine; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 65 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$195,633

Of which drugs: $15,494

Medicare patients

357

Average age 74

Services billed

6,334

205 women, 152 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
Arthritis 75%
High blood pressure 67%
Depression 23%
Diabetes 18%
Osteoporosis 18%
Ischemic heart disease 17%
Chronic kidney disease 17%
Atrial fibrillation 16%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Hyaluronan or derivative, monovisc, for intra-articular injection, per dose J7327 Office 11 16 $8,576
Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 Office 84 864 $646

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

3 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
Xeomin
  • Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC $16
$16 — —
Zilretta
  • Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $8
$8 — —
Exparel
  • Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $8
$8 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

Records

183 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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