Has Eric Francke, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,805 in general payments to Eric Francke, MD across 66 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 Eric Francke, 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 Eric Francke, 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.

Eric Francke, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Austell, GANPI 1588787634

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $8,628 of the $10,805 with a category attached, or 79.9%. Stryker accounts for 99.7% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,926 and has fallen 66.8% since, to $971 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in GA, where the typical reported total is $16,983.

$10,805in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 66 payments — averaging $163.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$11K
DJO, LLC$36

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$8,62880%
Food & beverage$2,17620%

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
Stryker	65	$10,769
DJO, LLC	1	$36

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

$10,805 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 57 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$174,150

Medicare patients

195

Services billed

2,093

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
Baclofen	296	$3,095
Gabapentin	228	$2,006
Celecoxib	33	$1,404
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	150	$1,291
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	48	$430
Methocarbamol	27	$366
Meloxicam	159	$333
Tramadol Hcl	89	$217
Tizanidine Hcl	14	$124
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	18	$74

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Austell

Tapan DaftariAustell$759K
John HellerAtlanta$4.2M
Scott BodenAtlanta$1.5M
Justin BundyAugusta$1.4M
John RheeAtlanta$1.1M
Brad PrybisStockbridge$659K
Paul JeffordsAtlanta$651K
Raphael RoybalSavannah$400K
Hewatt SimsDouglas$376K
James MalcolmMarietta$295K

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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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