Has Colin Canham, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,699 in general payments to Colin Canham, MD across 37 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 Colin Canham, 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 Colin Canham, 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.

Colin Canham, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Little River, SCNPI 1619266913

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,699in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 37 payments — averaging $289.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$4K
Zimmer Biomet$4K
Stryker$2K
Johnson & Johnson$178
Smith+Nephew$45
Heraeus Medical, LLC.$39
plus $47 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$3,40032%
Travel & lodging$5,03247%
Food & beverage$2,26621%

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.	4	$4,468
Zimmer Biomet	10	$4,369
Stryker	16	$1,553
Johnson & Johnson	2	$178
Smith+Nephew	1	$45
Heraeus Medical, LLC.	1	$39
Amgen(2 entities)	2	$28
Medtronic	1	$18

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

$10,699 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 325 orthopaedic surgery providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$249,422

Medicare patients

473

Services billed

4,533

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
Celecoxib	61	$1,182
Diclofenac Sodium	18	$475
Meloxicam	143	$378
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	23	$208
Oxycodone Hcl	41	$207
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	16	$150
Pregabalin	11	$94
Methylprednisolone	18	$89
Doxycycline Hyclate	12	$85
Amoxicillin	47	$53
Tramadol Hcl	14	$33
Clindamycin Hcl	11	$21

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Little River

William SmithColumbia$7.7M
Richard FrischMt Pleasant$1M
Brent PonceCharleston$892K
Chi LimSpartanburg$512K
Todd LansfordNorth Charleston$288K
Nicholas GrimaldiColumbia$203K
Richard MarksWest Columbia$176K
Brayton ShirleyGreer$134K
James LogingClinton$118K
Justin SmithRock Hill$102K

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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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