Has Donald Covington, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $52,182 in general payments to Donald Covington, MD across 85 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 Donald Covington, 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 Donald Covington, 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.

Donald Covington, MD

Surgery · Jacksonville, FLNPI 1427058130

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $37,692 of the $52,182 with a category attached, or 72.2%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Wound Management Technologies, Inc at 54.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $28,667 and has fallen 89.0% since, to $3,146 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in FL 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.

$52,182in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 85 payments — averaging $613.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Wound Management Technologies, Inc$28K
Sanara Medtech Inc.$13K
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$4K
Patriot Medical Distributors$2K
Kerecis Limited$1K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$1K
plus $1K from 16 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$37,69272%
Travel & lodging$6,77913%
Food & beverage$5,46910%
Other$2,2414%

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
Wound Management Technologies, Inc	11	$28,494
Sanara Medtech Inc.	10	$13,499
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	18	$3,877
Patriot Medical Distributors	1	$2,275
Kerecis Limited	6	$1,351
Alphatec Spine, Inc	1	$1,250
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	6	$396
Reprise Biomedical, Inc.	2	$249
AbbVie	6	$155
Biocomposites Inc	1	$109
Smith+Nephew	6	$106
Solventum Corporation	1	$86
Organogenesis Inc.	4	$67
Hydrofera LLC	2	$62
Next Science LLC	2	$44
Medela LLC	2	$38
Progenacare Global, LLC	1	$29
Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC	1	$28
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.	1	$21
Bsn Medical Inc	1	$21
OVIK Health, LLC	1	$14
Cashflow Solutions, LLC	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.

CellerateRx$41,843
INTEGRA$4,953
AMNIOEXCEL PLUS$1,502
Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$1,455
INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$1,434
PRIMATRIX$1,434
Other - Miscellaneous$1,250
Kerecis Omega3 Wound$1,021
Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$1,017
Kerecis Omega3 Surgibind$869
Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$715
MIRO3D$249
Stimulan$109

How this compares

$52,182 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,569 surgery providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$118,251

Medicare patients

193

Services billed

1,341

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
Doxycycline Hyclate	25	$216
Triamcinolone Acetonide	17	$90
Levofloxacin	12	$67
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	16	$58
Tramadol Hcl	12	$31

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other surgery in Jacksonville

Kenneth JonesJacksonville$267K
Steven HodgettJacksonville$148K
Thea PriceJacksonville$115K
Craig MorgenthalJacksonville$106K
Jorge FlorinWinter Garden$2.2M
Amit TaggarTampa$1.4M
Keith KimCelebration$1.1M
Richard DiciccoTampa$964K
Elizabeth DovecLakeland$870K
Christopher DucoinTampa$808K

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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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