Has Ethan Dean, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,780 in general payments to Ethan Dean, MD across 13 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 Ethan Dean, 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 Ethan Dean, 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.

Ethan Dean, MD

Hand Surgery · Marietta, GANPI 1093133894

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Smith+Nephew accounts for 68.1% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,234, more than ten times the $80 reported in 2020. That places this record below the midpoint for hand surgery clinicians in GA, where the typical reported total is $1,780.

$1,780in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 13 payments — averaging $136.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$1K
Catalyst Orthoscience$136
Johnson & Johnson$101
ERMI LLC$89
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$81
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$80
plus $81 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$83347%
Food & beverage$94853%

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
Smith+Nephew	4	$1,213
Catalyst Orthoscience	1	$136
Johnson & Johnson	1	$101
ERMI LLC	1	$89
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$81
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$80
Bioventus LLC	1	$45
Acumed LLC	1	$22
Polynovo North America LLC	1	$15

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

$1,780 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 77 hand surgery providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$149,187

Medicare patients

315

Services billed

9,588

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	44	$1,687
Meloxicam	164	$455
Naproxen	57	$375
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	69	$356
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	56	$182
Methylprednisolone	22	$148
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	14	$88
Ibuprofen	16	$59
Tramadol Hcl	37	$54
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	11	$32
Prednisone	11	$10

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other hand surgery in Marietta

Andy ZhuMarietta$3K
Eric WagnerAtlanta$173K
Phani DantuluriAtlanta$120K
Gregory KolovichSavannah$103K
Michael ShulerAthens$99K
Travis LittletonAtlanta$35K
Nicole ZelenskiAtlanta$34K
Justin BarrettGainesville$33K
Tobias von BergenStockbridge$27K
James SprattAtlanta$18K

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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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