Camden Burns, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Lexington, KYNPI 1952620718
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (56.7%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 40.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $17,206 and has fallen 63.4% since, to $6,295 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in KY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 366 payments — averaging $170.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$25K
- Stryker$9K
- Nexxt Spine LLC$6K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$5K
- Johnson & Johnson$5K
- Globus Medical$4K
- plus $8K from 18 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $4500.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Zimmer Biomet$5K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,3224%
- Consulting fees$35,37157%
- Travel & lodging$13,13521%
- Food & beverage$11,55019%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 38 | $24,933 |
| Stryker | 86 | $9,300 |
| Nexxt Spine LLC | 8 | $5,982 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 13 | $5,174 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 135 | $4,941 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 30 | $3,881 |
| 4web, Inc. | 6 | $1,928 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 15 | $1,640 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 7 | $1,506 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 5 | $906 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $669 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $382 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 3 | $299 |
| Lifenet Health | 3 | $174 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $151 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $79 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $70 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 2 | $65 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $41 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Theragen, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $11 |
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.
- CONDUIT$23,895
- NAVIGATION$7,000
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$7,000
- Struxxure MCS System$2,452
- Velys$2,447
- Connexx System$1,901
- SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$1,848
- PRODISC L$1,292
- Struxxure MCS$1,170
- ES2 SPINAL SYSTEM$1,168
- MazorX - Renaissance$1,050
- Excelsius - GPS$1,012
- CREO$902
- NEXUS-10 MKII$625
- Connexx Open System$289
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$262
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$255
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$245
- EXPEDIUM$227
- SYMPHONY$223
How this compares
$62,378 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 322 orthopaedic surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 33 | $91 |
| Gabapentin | 14 | $87 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Lexington
- Brent MorrisLexington$815K
- Paul MatuszewskiLexington$370K
- Christian ChristensenLexington$207K
- Kaveh SajadiLexington$195K
- Daniel HackettLexington$104K
- Victor MarwinLexington$86K
- Kevin DenehyLexington$85K
- Srinath KamineniLexington$44K
- Syed MehdiLexington$39K
- Graysen Petersen-FittsLexington$38K
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.