Alex Caughran, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Huntington, WVNPI 1750640991
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $5,824 of the $9,045 with a category attached, or 64.4%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 57.1% of the total.
Across 78 payments — averaging $115.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$5K
- Smith+Nephew$3K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$703
- Zimmer Biomet$137
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$137
- Johnson & Johnson$129
- plus $272 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,82464%
- Food & beverage$3,22136%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 44 | $5,166 |
| Smith+Nephew | 17 | $2,500 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $703 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $137 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $137 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $129 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $79 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $57 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $35 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- MAKO$2,826
- Journey II BCS$1,377
- Legion Revision$1,263
- POLARSTEM$859
- ACTIS$780
- TRIATHLON$768
- ATTUNE$651
- LEGION TKS$457
- VISIONAIRE$457
- REDAPT$404
- NAVIO$404
- EVOS$404
- R3$402
- REDAPT Revision Hip System$402
- PICO 7$125
- RENASYS GO v2 HOME$125
- INSIGNIA$100
How this compares
$9,045 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 93 orthopaedic surgery providers in West Virginia.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 79 | $463 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 60 | $333 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 88 | $314 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 15 | $114 |
| Amoxicillin | 44 | $44 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Huntington
- Steven LochowHuntington$146K
- John CromptonHuntington$78K
- Ali OliashiraziHuntington$65K
- Felix CheungHuntington$59K
- John JaskoHuntington$39K
- Amit SinglaHuntington$37K
- Karim BoukhemisHuntington$33K
- Moses AdebayoHuntington$19K
- Suhirad KhokharHuntington$6K
- Jessica HaleHuntington$5K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.