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Covered recipient · General Payments record

ZEKE WALTON

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Orthopaedic Surgery

NPI
1780844563
CMS profile
353274
Location
CHARLESTON, SC

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General Payments · PY2020–2025

  • CMS publication 2026-06-30

Latest program year · PY2025

$17,011.81

26 records · 0 disputed

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By nature of payment

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Consulting Fee $13,500.00 4
Travel and Lodging $2,200.80 4
Food and Beverage $1,311.01 18

By paying entity

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
EXACTECH, INC. $14,666.35 6
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $1,713.91 9
Stryker Corporation $482.54 8
Onkos Surgical, Inc. $114.01 1
Acera Surgical, Inc. $19.43 1
BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY $15.57 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2020 $149.56 2
PY2023 $39.60 1
PY2024 $1,790.69 10
PY2025 $17,011.81 26

Payment records · PY2025 (26)

Ordering applied by this site (date, newest first, then paying entity) · record values are shown as CMS published them

Program year 2025 202020232024 Record-level detail is published for PY2025; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Acera Surgical, Inc. $19.43 12/11/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1250328323 CMS
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $45.15 12/01/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1246874991 CMS
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $59.13 12/01/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1246874993 CMS
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $23.65 12/01/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1246874995 CMS
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $545.54 11/30/2025 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1246874989 CMS
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $135.87 11/21/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1246875007 CMS
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $697.23 11/20/2025 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1246874975 CMS
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $35.00 11/20/2025 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1246874977 CMS
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $87.08 11/20/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1246875003 CMS
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $85.26 11/20/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1246875005 CMS
Stryker Corporation $166.10 11/13/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1227998751 CMS
Stryker Corporation $33.83 10/28/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1227998747 CMS
Stryker Corporation $12.94 10/07/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1227998741 CMS
Stryker Corporation $25.31 09/19/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1227998737 CMS
Stryker Corporation $40.80 08/19/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1227998734 CMS
EXACTECH, INC. $500.00 08/08/2025 Consulting Fee No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1254963402 CMS
EXACTECH, INC. $243.32 05/17/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1254968041 CMS
EXACTECH, INC. $923.03 05/17/2025 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1254968049 CMS
EXACTECH, INC. $12,000.00 05/16/2025 Consulting Fee No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1254968043 CMS
Onkos Surgical, Inc. $114.01 05/12/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1236946071 CMS
Becton, Dickinson and Company $15.57 04/30/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1232246097 CMS
EXACTECH, INC. $500.00 04/18/2025 Consulting Fee No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1254966321 CMS
EXACTECH, INC. $500.00 04/18/2025 Consulting Fee No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1254968045 CMS
Stryker Corporation $20.79 04/09/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1227998728 CMS
Stryker Corporation $12.18 04/01/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1227998724 CMS
Stryker Corporation $170.59 02/25/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1227998721 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-06-30
Program years on this page
2020, 2023, 2024, 2025
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2020 , PY2023 , PY2024 , PY2025
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2025_P06302026_06032026.csv

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Cite this record.

Plain
ZEKE WALTON, NPI 1780844563. IndustryPayments, data edition 2026-07-26T04:22:22Z. https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1780844563.
APA 7
IndustryPayments. (2026). ZEKE WALTON, NPI 1780844563 (Data edition 2026-07-26T04:22:22Z) [Data set]. https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1780844563
Bluebook
ZEKE WALTON, NPI 1780844563, IndustryPayments (data edition 2026-07-26T04:22:22Z), https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1780844563.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Open Payments.