Who Paid My Doc
Thorsten Seyler
Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery Durham, NC Medical Doctor
NPI 1801022520 CMS profile 1314114
4709 Creekstone Dr, Durham, NC 27703
General payments
$2,188,474
Research payments
$113,874
Ownership & investment interest
$48,901
Research they led as principal investigator
$177,847
Through program year 2025, Thorsten Seyler of Durham, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $2,188,474 across 1,407 general payments and $113,874 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $177,847 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $48,901 across 1 holding.
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 Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
10 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $436,814 | 206 | |
| 2025 | Research | $2,244 | 8 | |
| 2024 | General | $460,875 | 278 | |
| 2023 | General | $557,436 | 312 | |
| 2022 | General | $441,386 | 300 | |
| 2021 | General | $189,626 | 199 | |
| 2020 | General | $52,782 | 29 | |
| 2019 | General | $49,555 | 83 | |
| 2019 | Research | $111,630 | 13 | |
| 2025 | Ownership | $48,901 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Thorsten Seyler
- Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery median
- Middle half of Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Thorsten Seyler were reported at $436,814. Among 1,079 Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $1,406 and the middle half received between $318 and $8,709.
Show as a table
| Year | Thorsten Seyler | Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $49,555 | $1,416 | $292–$9,336 | $163 |
| 2020 | $52,782 | $647 | $141–$6,474 | $114 |
| 2021 | $189,626 | $1,073 | $211–$6,497 | $132 |
| 2022 | $441,386 | $1,217 | $236–$6,299 | $149 |
| 2023 | $557,436 | $1,082 | $246–$6,818 | $160 |
| 2024 | $460,875 | $1,575 | $323–$8,944 | $164 |
| 2025 | $436,814 | $1,406 | $318–$8,709 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 10 drugsPart D claims
296
Drug cost
$1,409
Branded share of claims
3.7%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baclofen | Generic | 23 | $301 | |
| Meloxicam | Generic | 106 | $297 | |
| Diclofenac Sodium | Generic | 20 | $265 | |
| Trazodone Hcl | Generic | 55 | $152 | |
| Duloxetine Hcl | Generic | 15 | $123 | |
| Gabapentin | Generic | 15 | $105 | |
| Methocarbamol | Generic | 21 | $102 | |
| Metformin Hcl Er Metformin Hcl | Brand | 11 | $31 | |
| Prednisone | Generic | 16 | $21 | |
| Amoxicillin | Generic | 14 | $12 |
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 · 45 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$97,059
Medicare patients
216
Services billed
1,349
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Arthritis | 75% | |
| Diabetes | 31% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 27% | |
| Depression | 24% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 22% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 19% | |
| Osteoporosis | 19% |
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
1,428 reportedEvery 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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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.