David Ryan, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Athens, GANPI 1629165618
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 34 payments — averaging $445.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Tracpatch Health, Inc$11K
- Shalby Advanced Technologies, Inc.$4K
- Stryker$183
- Kerecis Limited$169
- Amgen$117
- Medacta USA, Inc.$83
- plus $326 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,50023%
- Food & beverage$8806%
- Ownership interest$10,76871%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tracpatch Health, Inc | 6 | $10,768 |
| Shalby Advanced Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $3,500 |
| Stryker | 6 | $183 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $169 |
| Amgen | 9 | $117 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $83 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 1 | $79 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $69 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $53 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Ortho Development Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$15,147 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 654 orthopaedic surgery providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 288 | $1,614 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 129 | $1,191 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 11 | $311 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 90 | $275 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 24 | $158 |
| Cephalexin | 23 | $156 |
| Meloxicam | 71 | $145 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 13 | $114 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 66 | $82 |
| Methylprednisolone | 13 | $80 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 43 | $72 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 13 | $34 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Athens
- Ormonde MahoneyAthens$10.8M
- William TallyAthens$870K
- Julian PriceAthens$805K
- Charles OgburnAthens$248K
- John DorrisAthens$68K
- Charles DecookCumming$48.3M
- Daxes BanitWarner Robins$5.7M
- John DorchakColumbus$3.8M
- Daniel SilcoxAtlanta$3.4M
- Dennis DevitoAtlanta$1.5M
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.