Has Christopher Potts, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $48,130 in general payments to Christopher Potts, MD across 203 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 Christopher Potts, 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 Christopher Potts, 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.

Christopher Potts, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Alpharetta, GANPI 1750556023

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $32,803 of the $48,130 with a category attached, or 68.2%. Stryker accounts for 86.7% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $18,455 and has fallen 99.4% since, to $118 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in GA 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.

$48,130in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 203 payments — averaging $237.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$42K
Smith+Nephew$1K
RTI Surgical, Inc$1K
Amgen$1K
Zimmer Biomet$599
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$464
plus $1K from 12 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$32,80368%
Travel & lodging$4,0248%
Food & beverage$11,30423%

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	71	$41,749
Smith+Nephew	19	$1,436
RTI Surgical, Inc	16	$1,429
Amgen	62	$1,111
Zimmer Biomet	5	$599
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	7	$464
United Orthopedics LLC	3	$277
Flower Orthopedics Coporation	1	$236
Arthrosurface Incorporated	2	$182
Embody, Inc.	1	$173
Abbott	1	$132
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	6	$119
ERMI LLC	2	$71
Vericel Corporation	3	$53
Bioventus LLC	1	$47
Convatec Inc.	1	$20
Atland Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$16
Johnson & Johnson	1	$16

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$16,030
REUNION$3,400
ICONIX$2,360
NA$2,314
SALVATION$2,224
INSPACE$1,892
OMEGA$1,876
INSIGNIA$1,700
ALLOGRAFT$1,490
SLINGSHOT$1,260
HIPMAP$1,031
Regeneten$299
CINCHLOCK SS$297
Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$294
TRIGEN InterTAN$284
HIP ARTHROSCOPY ACCESS & INSTRUMENTATION SET$243
ROSA-Knee$240
Knees-None$236
Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$184
AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$173

How this compares

$48,130 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 654 orthopaedic surgery providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$142,459

Medicare patients

232

Services billed

3,679

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	104	$840
Diclofenac Sodium	11	$731
Ondansetron Hcl	106	$312
Clindamycin Hcl	39	$216
Tramadol Hcl	49	$111
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	17	$108
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	15	$95
Meloxicam	31	$56

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Alpharetta

Jon MinterAlpharetta$1.2M
Charles DecookCumming$48.3M
Ormonde MahoneyAthens$10.6M
Daxes BanitWarner Robins$5.5M
John DorchakColumbus$3.8M
Daniel SilcoxAtlanta$3.4M
Dennis DevitoAtlanta$1.5M
George GuildCumming$987K
William TallyAthens$870K
Julian PriceAthens$805K

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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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