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

Ronald Singer

Orthopaedic Surgery Charlotte, NC Medical Doctor

NPI 1023091444 CMS profile 182185

15825 John J Delaney Dr, Suite 100, Charlotte, NC 28277

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General payments

$378,930

461 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

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

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$225 paid to institutions, not to them · program year 2023

Through program year 2025, Ronald Singer of Charlotte, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $378,930 across 461 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $225 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than 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. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 96th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery 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 $409 6
2024 General $13,507 16
2023 General $28,910 22
2022 General $30,140 84
2021 General $73,707 104
2020 General $70,129 56
2019 General $162,128 173

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Ronald Singer were reported at $409. 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 Ronald Singer Orthopaedic Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $162,128 $644 $140–$2,844 $163
2020 $70,129 $312 $75–$1,860 $114
2021 $73,707 $520 $117–$2,495 $132
2022 $30,140 $598 $128–$2,731 $149
2023 $28,910 $461 $128–$2,264 $160
2024 $13,507 $497 $134–$2,475 $164
2025 $409 $563 $147–$2,717 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Smith+Nephew, Inc. $123,812 187 payments
  2. Medacta USA, Inc. $107,705 76 payments
  3. TechMah Medical, LLC $79,843 92 payments
  4. Avanos Medical $62,787 70 payments
  5. Lima USA, Inc. $2,196 13 payments
  6. Next Science LLC $1,708 9 payments
  7. Kerecis Limited $332 2 payments
  8. Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $246 3 payments
  9. Peerless Surgical Inc. $211 3 payments
  10. Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC $21 1 payment
  11. Other $69 5 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $186,877 58 payments
  2. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $66,640 22 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $64,869 163 payments
  4. Honoraria $44,981 14 payments
  5. Food and Beverage $15,562 204 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. GMK SPHERE $68,313 18 payments
  2. ON-Q $46,114 19 payments
  3. SmartSpace Hip $37,416 34 payments
  4. SmartSpace Knee $37,078 32 payments
  5. Journey II XR $28,589 18 payments
  6. AMISTEM $26,599 48 payments
  7. PICO Single Use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy $21,420 40 payments
  8. Legion $20,952 9 payments
  9. ON-Q* PUMP AND ACCESSORIES $15,258 39 payments
  10. Journey II CR $13,702 8 payments
  11. Other $182,414 314 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 · 12 drugs

Part D claims

2,202

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$8,792

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

1.5%

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
Oxycodone Hcl Generic 352 $2,326
Meloxicam Generic 689 $1,717
Tramadol Hcl Generic 403 $1,298
Cephalexin Generic 383 $770
Celecoxib Generic 31 $599
Gabapentin Generic 96 $571
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 34 $474
Diclofenac Sodium Generic 38 $419
Pregabalin Generic 54 $371
Ondansetron Hcl Generic 25 $99

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 12 counted.

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 · 61 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$391,206

Of which drugs: $12,979

Medicare patients

695

Average age 75

Services billed

5,197

460 women, 235 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 21%
Osteoporosis 21%
Chronic kidney disease 19%
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, durolane, for intra-articular injection, 1 mg J7318 Office 26 2,100 $10,933
Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg J0702 Office 42 257 $1,275
Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 Office 40 586 $436

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

461 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

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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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