Has David Ajibade, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $54,574 in general payments to David Ajibade, MD across 208 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 David Ajibade, 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 David Ajibade, 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.

David Ajibade, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Orangeburg, SCNPI 1407050248

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — grants (36.6%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 45.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $20,015 and has fallen 99.6% since, to $75 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in SC 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.

$54,574in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 208 payments — averaging $262.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$25K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$8K
Catalyst Orthoscience$4K
Stryker$3K
Smith+Nephew$3K
Elite Orthopedics, LLC$3K
plus $9K from 11 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,9033%
Grants$20,00037%
Travel & lodging$18,63834%
Food & beverage$5,1669%
Education$8,86816%

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	23	$24,690
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	51	$7,777
Catalyst Orthoscience	15	$3,648
Stryker	23	$3,249
Smith+Nephew	22	$3,248
Elite Orthopedics, LLC	2	$2,717
Zimmer Biomet	21	$2,565
Encore Medical, LP	25	$1,620
Medtronic	11	$1,378
Peerless Surgical Inc.	2	$1,247
Pinnacle, Inc	2	$1,242
Johnson & Johnson	6	$1,106
Kerecis Limited	1	$26
Bioventus LLC	1	$19
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$15
Osteoremedies, LLC	1	$14
AbbVie	1	$13

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.

BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$1,953
Catalyst Total CSR$1,903
RIGIDLOOP$1,847
MICRORAPTOR$1,436
AQUAMANTYS$1,104
Comprehensive Shoulder System$924
MAKO$867
BRISTOW-LATARJET$862
Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$718
INHANCE$713
CSR & R1 Reverse Total Shoulder Systems$646
R1 Reverse Total Shoulder$646
Archer 3D Software$646
NOVOSTITCH PRO$639
FAST-FIX$636
Comprehensive Primary Stem$606
DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$517
Catalyst CSR Shoulder System$456
R1 Reverse Shoulder System$456
DJO SURGICAL$439

How this compares

$54,574 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 325 orthopaedic surgery providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$94,350

Medicare patients

253

Services billed

1,019

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
Diclofenac Sodium	49	$963
Methylprednisolone	52	$390
Meloxicam	63	$194
Celecoxib	12	$192
Tramadol Hcl	23	$39

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Orangeburg

William SmithColumbia$7.7M
Richard FrischMt Pleasant$1M
Brent PonceCharleston$874K
Chi LimSpartanburg$320K
Todd LansfordNorth Charleston$286K
Nicholas GrimaldiColumbia$203K
Richard MarksWest Columbia$176K
James LogingClinton$118K
Justin SmithRock Hill$102K
Matthew DuffinRock Hill$98K

See the full list for South Carolina →

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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