Duane Tippets, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Anniston, ALNPI 1043209513
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 57 payments — averaging $22.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$494
- Bioventus LLC$93
- Zimmer Biomet$87
- Kerecis Limited$85
- Galt Pharmaceuticals, LLC$75
- Amgen$73
- plus $393 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,300100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 22 | $494 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $93 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $87 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $85 |
| Galt Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $75 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 5 | $73 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $67 |
| ERMI LLC | 2 | $51 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 4 | $49 |
| Stryker | 1 | $32 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Vertex | 1 | $19 |
| Orthogenrx Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $10 |
How this compares
$1,300 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 150 | $2,351 |
| Gabapentin | 174 | $1,841 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 197 | $1,673 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 264 | $1,257 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 81 | $633 |
| Methocarbamol | 33 | $477 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 34 | $430 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 22 | $382 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 29 | $337 |
| Meloxicam | 87 | $281 |
| Ibuprofen | 27 | $211 |
| Prednisone | 29 | $209 |
| Pregabalin | 12 | $155 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Anniston
- Jeffrey DugasBirmingham$11.7M
- Benton EmblomBirmingham$3.1M
- James SmithGadsden$2.7M
- 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.