Colm McCarthy, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Fall River, MANPI 1982269205
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (53.7%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimmer Biomet at 39.8% of the total.
Across 72 payments — averaging $81.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Kairos Surgical Inc$1K
- Smith+Nephew$277
- Innovation Technologies Inc$107
- Baudax Bio Inc.$64
- plus $236 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,05618%
- Food & beverage$3,17054%
- Education$1,67428%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 19 | $2,346 |
| Stryker | 29 | $1,654 |
| Kairos Surgical Inc | 2 | $1,217 |
| Smith+Nephew | 10 | $277 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $107 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 3 | $64 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $60 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $20 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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
$5,900 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 542 orthopaedic surgery providers in Massachusetts.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 22 | $804 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 21 | $418 |
| Cephalexin | 15 | $408 |
| Meloxicam | 202 | $348 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 38 | $235 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 18 | $222 |
| Methylprednisolone | 25 | $203 |
| Mupirocin | 16 | $167 |
| Amoxicillin | 37 | $72 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 19 | $39 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Fall River
- Paul TornettaBoston$16.3M
- Thomas ThornhillBoston$12M
- Stephen MurphyRoxbury Crossing$8M
- Andrew FreibergBoston$5.9M
- Jon WarnerBoston$5.4M
- Wolfgang FitzBoston$3.7M
- Brian KwonWaltham$1.9M
- Simon ChaoNorth Easton$1.6M
- Scott SigmanNorth Chelmsford$1.4M
- Michael LangworthyNorth Dartmouth$715K
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.