Connor Read, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Gadsden, ALNPI 1104313204
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 43 payments — averaging $291.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$9K
- Stryker$1K
- Prime Surgical, LLC$969
- Smith+Nephew$936
- Globus Medical$406
- Johnson & Johnson$171
- plus $191 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,75070%
- Travel & lodging$2,44620%
- Food & beverage$1,32211%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 3 | $8,750 |
| Stryker | 5 | $1,094 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 12 | $969 |
| Smith+Nephew | 12 | $936 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $406 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $171 |
| Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC | 1 | $63 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $54 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $39 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $18 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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$695
- Journey II$694
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$671
- Legion Revision$434
- RI.HIP NAVIGATION$434
- A/R Femoral Nail$406
- INSPACE$399
- EVOS$132
- TRIGEN InterTAN$121
How this compares
$12,517 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 319 orthopaedic surgery providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 60 | $844 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 75 | $602 |
| Celecoxib | 37 | $459 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 60 | $452 |
| Cephalexin | 40 | $252 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 49 | $143 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 11 | $86 |
| Gabapentin | 19 | $85 |
| Meloxicam | 21 | $82 |
| Dexamethasone | 31 | $75 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Gadsden
- James SmithGadsden$2.7M
- Jeffrey DugasBirmingham$11.7M
- Benton EmblomBirmingham$3.1M
- Herrick SiegelBirmingham$1.3M
- Paul CanaleDaphne$609K
- Kenneth MooreBirmingham$342K
- Jeffrey DavisBirmingham$293K
- Joseph SherrillBirmingham$221K
- Jonathan QuadeBirmingham$219K
- Lawrence LemakVestavia$216K
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.