Christopher Gaunder, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Athens, GANPI 1811133101
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 213 payments — averaging $181.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC$11K
- Zimmer Biomet$10K
- Spinesmith Holdings, LLC$8K
- Stryker$5K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$2K
- Restor3d, Inc.$968
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,8447%
- Consulting fees$12,87533%
- Travel & lodging$12,43232%
- Food & beverage$9,13224%
- Education$1,3984%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC | 5 | $11,028 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 76 | $9,876 |
| Spinesmith Holdings, LLC | 7 | $8,295 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 50 | $4,601 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 13 | $1,738 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 6 | $968 |
| Smith+Nephew | 13 | $711 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $307 |
| Bioventus LLC | 9 | $233 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 4 | $117 |
| Think Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $108 |
| BETA Bionics, Inc. | 1 | $97 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $83 |
| Avanos Medical | 3 | $65 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| Ascensia Diabetes Care US Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $37 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Vericel Corporation | 2 | $32 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $27 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $13 |
| Hydrofera LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, 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.
- iNSitu Hip System$10,984
- Persona$2,353
- MAKO$2,184
- Arcos$1,384
- AMISTEM$1,305
- Avenir$1,290
- Taperloc$786
- INSIGNIA$617
- ACCOLADE$501
- ROSA$447
- X3 ADVANCED BEARING TECHNOLOGY$396
- TRIATHLON$396
- ROSA-Knee$375
- Persona Revision$257
- Physio-Stim$220
- EX-FIX$209
- Surgical-None$146
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$128
- GMK SPHERE$125
- AXSOS$120
How this compares
$38,680 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 654 orthopaedic surgery providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 172 | $2,263 |
| Celecoxib | 159 | $1,904 |
| Naproxen | 199 | $1,502 |
| Cefadroxil | 167 | $1,417 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 29 | $811 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 196 | $750 |
| Gabapentin | 165 | $559 |
| Methylprednisolone | 93 | $543 |
| Prednisone | 170 | $215 |
| Meloxicam | 70 | $175 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 19 | $118 |
| Amoxicillin | 86 | $76 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 20 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Athens
- Ormonde MahoneyAthens$10.8M
- William TallyAthens$870K
- Julian PriceAthens$805K
- Charles OgburnAthens$248K
- John DorrisAthens$68K
- Charles DecookCumming$48.3M
- Daxes BanitWarner Robins$5.7M
- John DorchakColumbus$3.8M
- Daniel SilcoxAtlanta$3.4M
- Dennis DevitoAtlanta$1.5M
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.