Edwin Kennedy, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Flowood, MSNPI 1457449589
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 89 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 26 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 13.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $489 and has fallen 71.6% since, to $139 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MS, where the typical reported total is $3,357.
Across 89 payments — averaging $22.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$265
- Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$227
- Johnson & Johnson$180
- Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.$153
- Smith+Nephew$123
- Radius Health, Inc.$112
- plus $910 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,969100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen(2 entities) | 21 | $265 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 11 | $227 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $180 |
| Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc. | 4 | $153 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $123 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 7 | $112 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Vertex | 5 | $87 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 4 | $78 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $74 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $68 |
| Stryker | 3 | $67 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $66 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $53 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $41 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Abbott | 1 | $24 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $20 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $13 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| ALON Medical Technology | 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$111
- Navio Surgical System$111
- ATTUNE$102
How this compares
$1,969 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 170 orthopaedic surgery providers in Mississippi.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 562 | $9,776 |
| Methylprednisolone | 50 | $273 |
| Meloxicam | 108 | $187 |
| Cephalexin | 43 | $54 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $35 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Flowood
- Steven HendrixFlowood$15K
- Michael DulskeFlowood$10K
- Charles HosemannFlowood$8K
- Matthew GravesJackson$1.2M
- George van OstenTupelo$322K
- Edward HobgoodJackson$267K
- Hanna MitiasNew Albany$249K
- Stephen SouthworthTupelo$160K
- Jamey BurrowJackson$130K
- Jeff AlmandJackson$109K
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.