Has Gary Simon, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,257 in general payments to Gary Simon, MD across 22 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 Gary Simon, 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 Gary Simon, 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.

Gary Simon, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Austell, GANPI 1467440107

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,257in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $193.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$3K
United Orthopedics LLC$1K
Biotissue Holdings Inc.$129
Acumed LLC$94
Arthrex$79
Bioventus LLC$16

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,73941%
Food & beverage$1,31831%
Education$1,20028%

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(2 entities)	16	$2,739
United Orthopedics LLC	1	$1,200
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	1	$129
Acumed LLC	2	$94
Arthrex	1	$79
Bioventus LLC	1	$16

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

$4,257 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 654 orthopaedic surgery providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$266,106

Medicare patients

555

Services billed

40,245

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 ErDiclofenac Sodium	86	$2,303
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	67	$704
Celecoxib	49	$649
Diclofenac Sodium	22	$456
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	74	$338
Cephalexin	95	$220
Ibuprofen	19	$171
Meloxicam	46	$125
Methylprednisolone	17	$88
Tramadol Hcl	34	$70
Clindamycin Hcl	11	$24

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Austell

Ali MortazaviAustell$254K
Charles DecookCumming$48.3M
Ormonde MahoneyAthens$10.8M
Daxes BanitWarner Robins$5.7M
John DorchakColumbus$3.8M
Daniel SilcoxAtlanta$3.4M
Dennis DevitoAtlanta$1.5M
George GuildCumming$1.4M
Jon MinterAlpharetta$1.4M
Tuan BuiLawrenceville$1.1M

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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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