Has Chad Kessler, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,828 in general payments to Chad Kessler, MD across 132 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Chad Kessler, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Chad Kessler, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Chad Kessler, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Newnan, GANPI 1720175714

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alphatec Spine, Inc at 48.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,916 and has fallen 54.0% since, to $1,801 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in GA, where the typical reported total is $16,983.

$7,828in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 132 payments — averaging $59.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alphatec Spine, Inc$4K
Globus Medical$3K
DJO, LLC$131
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$90
Intrinsic Therapeutics$80
Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc.$64
plus $302 from 11 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,26042%
Food & beverage$4,56858%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Alphatec Spine, Inc	10	$3,794
Globus Medical(2 entities)	98	$3,366
DJO, LLC	6	$131
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	1	$90
Intrinsic Therapeutics	2	$80
Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc.	1	$64
Bioventus LLC	2	$60
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$41
Amgen	2	$37
Johnson & Johnson	1	$36
Spineology Inc.	2	$27
Spine Wave, Inc.	1	$24
Aesculap, Inc.	1	$20
Medtronic	1	$16
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$16
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	1	$13
Life Spine, Inc.	1	$12

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.

How this compares

$7,828 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 57 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$236,608

Medicare patients

553

Services billed

3,777

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	167	$980
Gabapentin	87	$902
Methocarbamol	162	$691
Methylprednisolone	77	$425
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	44	$395
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	59	$308
Meloxicam	116	$272
Tramadol Hcl	92	$263
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	60	$215
Celecoxib	14	$202
Ibuprofen	29	$185
Tizanidine Hcl	44	$138
Baclofen	13	$129
Diazepam	18	$13

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Newnan

David LoveNewnan$20K
John HellerAtlanta$4.2M
Scott BodenAtlanta$1.5M
Justin BundyAugusta$1.4M
John RheeAtlanta$1.1M
Tapan DaftariAustell$759K
Brad PrybisStockbridge$659K
Paul JeffordsAtlanta$651K
Raphael RoybalSavannah$400K
Hewatt SimsDouglas$376K

See the full list for Georgia →

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.

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