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

Richard Jones

Orthopaedic Surgery Asheville, NC Medical Doctor

NPI 1447345137 CMS profile 201348

21 Turtle Creek Dr, Asheville, NC 28803

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General payments

$564,021

223 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$578,590

Paid to them · 29 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Richard Jones of Asheville, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $564,021 across 223 general payments and $578,590 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 98th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

14 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $204,435 46
2025 Research $39,755 5
2024 General $99,256 19
2024 Research $99,535 4
2023 General $71,203 31
2023 Research $68,920 4
2022 General $41,900 34
2022 Research $85,920 4
2021 General $48,098 35
2021 Research $82,645 4
2020 General $30,784 20
2020 Research $94,455 4
2019 General $68,344 38
2019 Research $107,360 4

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Richard Jones were reported at $204,435. 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 Richard Jones Orthopaedic Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $68,344 $644 $140–$2,844 $163
2020 $30,784 $312 $75–$1,860 $114
2021 $48,098 $520 $117–$2,495 $132
2022 $41,900 $598 $128–$2,731 $149
2023 $71,203 $461 $128–$2,264 $160
2024 $99,256 $497 $134–$2,475 $164
2025 $204,435 $563 $147–$2,717 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Exactech, Inc. $543,546 181 payments
  2. Advita Ortho, LLC $12,012 6 payments
  3. Peerless Surgical Inc. $2,903 12 payments
  4. Arthrex, Inc. $2,250 2 payments
  5. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $1,755 1 payment
  6. Stryker Corporation $855 6 payments
  7. Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $388 3 payments
  8. Flexion Therapeutics, Inc. $144 4 payments
  9. Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. $53 3 payments
  10. Anika Therapeutics, Inc. $36 1 payment
  11. Other $79 4 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Royalty or License $319,101 28 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $198,870 79 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $32,834 30 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $8,565 82 payments
  5. Education $2,400 2 payments
  6. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $2,250 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Equinoxe Orthopaedic $201,870 60 payments
  2. EQUINOXE Orthopaedic $144,374 15 payments
  3. EQUINOXE Orthopaedic $142,595 76 payments
  4. EQUINOXE PHX SYSTEM $9,698 5 payments
  5. TRULIANT $6,950 2 payments
  6. GLOBAL $1,755 1 payment
  7. DELTA $1,755 1 payment
  8. VERASENSE $839 5 payments
  9. EXACTECHGPS $250 1 payment
  10. Juggerknotless Soft Anchor $145 1 payment
  11. Other $762 17 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. Exactech, Inc. $578,590 29 payments

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 4 drugs

Part D claims

156

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$733

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

0%

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
Celecoxib Generic 14 $442
Meloxicam Generic 73 $122
Tramadol Hcl Generic 27 $85
Amoxicillin Generic 42 $84

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 · 39 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$181,284

Of which drugs: $75

Medicare patients

487

Average age 74

Services billed

2,559

270 women, 217 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 73%
Ischemic heart disease 22%
Depression 22%
Diabetes 20%
Atrial fibrillation 17%
Osteoporosis 14%
Cancer 13%
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, methylprednisolone acetate, 1 mg J1010 Office 11 680 $70

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.

Records

252 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

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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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