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

Jason Zook

Orthopaedic Surgery Morganton, NC Medical Doctor

NPI 1114131786 CMS profile 322843

503 E Parker Rd, Morganton, NC 28655

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General payments

$789,438

896 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$15,650

Paid to them · 3 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Jason Zook of Morganton, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $789,438 across 896 general payments and $15,650 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 97th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

9 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $236,286 178
2024 General $127,654 145
2024 Research $3,000 1
2023 General $105,723 110
2023 Research $12,650 2
2022 General $82,482 142
2021 General $75,460 144
2020 General $33,271 37
2019 General $128,562 140

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Jason Zook
  • Orthopaedic Surgery median
  • Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Jason Zook were reported at $236,286. Among 15,343 Orthopaedic Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $563 and the middle half received between $147 and $2,717.

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Year Jason Zook Orthopaedic Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $128,562 $644 $140–$2,844 $163
2020 $33,271 $312 $75–$1,860 $114
2021 $75,460 $520 $117–$2,495 $132
2022 $82,482 $598 $128–$2,731 $149
2023 $105,723 $461 $128–$2,264 $160
2024 $127,654 $497 $134–$2,475 $164
2025 $236,286 $563 $147–$2,717 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Globus Medical, Inc. $508,563 310 payments
  2. Medacta USA, Inc. $84,907 151 payments
  3. Intrinsic Therapeutics $50,521 94 payments
  4. Cutting Edge Spine, LLC $48,938 20 payments
  5. Choice Spine, LLC $24,415 13 payments
  6. Integrity Implants Inc $21,342 57 payments
  7. Nexxt Spine LLC $20,389 11 payments
  8. Spineart USA Inc $8,148 7 payments
  9. Alphatec Spine, Inc $4,735 12 payments
  10. Integrity Implants Inc. $4,704 5 payments
  11. Other $12,778 216 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Royalty or License $362,072 47 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $163,124 65 payments
  3. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $138,753 30 payments
  4. Travel and Lodging $87,242 193 payments
  5. Food and Beverage $24,986 551 payments
  6. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program $12,250 7 payments
  7. Charitable Contribution $617 1 payment
  8. Education $349 1 payment
  9. Gift $44 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. CREO Orthopedics/Orthopedic Surgery $116,341 4 payments
  2. Excelsius - GPS $92,479 53 payments
  3. CREO ONE Robotic Screw $87,719 5 payments
  4. MySpine $52,806 64 payments
  5. BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE) Annular Closure Device $49,660 74 payments
  6. BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE) Annular Closure Device $49,660 74 payments
  7. CREO Threaded $48,650 2 payments
  8. CREO Spine $45,076 12 payments
  9. Linesider $18,679 45 payments
  10. EXCELSIUS GPS $18,157 52 payments
  11. Other $235,540 581 payments

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

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Intrinsic Therapeutics $15,650 3 payments

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 10 drugs

Part D claims

445

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$3,072

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

3.1%

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 11.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Pregabalin Generic 58 $678
Mupirocin Generic 88 $578
Methylprednisolone Generic 95 $543
Celecoxib Generic 56 $513
Gabapentin Generic 34 $192
Methocarbamol Generic 35 $162
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 14 $159
Tizanidine Hcl Generic 25 $156
Meloxicam Generic 25 $59
Diazepam Generic 15 $32

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 18,934 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 73 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$138,271

Of which drugs: $402

Medicare patients

350

Average age 73

Services billed

1,902

208 women, 142 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
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 75%
Diabetes 30%
Depression 27%
Ischemic heart disease 24%
Osteoporosis 23%
Chronic kidney disease 20%
COPD 15%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 Office 77 372 $272
Injection, ketorolac tromethamine, per 15 mg J1885 Office 70 246 $130

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
Qutenza
  • Averitas Pharma Inc. $37
$37 — —
ZTLido
  • Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. $33
$33 — —
XTAMPZA
  • Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. $20
$20 — —

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

899 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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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