George Babikian, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Falmouth, MENPI 1972502052
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $312,670 of the $446,029 with a category attached, or 70.1%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 99.7% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $135,511, 6.1 times the $22,365 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in ME with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 153 payments — averaging $2915.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$445K
- Zimmer Biomet$742
- Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.$691
- Arthrex$24
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$312,67070%
- Consulting fees$2,2441%
- Speaking & faculty fees$96,29822%
- Travel & lodging$30,3097%
- Food & beverage$4,4231%
- Education$870%
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 | 132 | $444,572 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 9 | $742 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 11 | $691 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $24 |
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.
- Anthology$195,699
- EVOS$161,062
- Journey II$101,964
- POLARSTEM$54,710
- POLARCUP$34,054
- OR3O$24,795
- POLAR3$24,566
- R3 ACETABULAR$20,499
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$20,037
- REDAPT$14,343
- OR3O Dual Mobility$13,999
- Engage Partial Knee System$11,213
- R3$10,951
- Birmingham Hip Resurfacing$10,640
- Tandem$10,479
- Journey II BCS$9,160
- Journey II CR$9,160
- JOURNEY II UK$9,160
- CORI$7,500
- RI.HIP NAVIGATION$3,490
How this compares
$446,029 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 111 orthopaedic surgery providers in Maine.
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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Falmouth
- Nicholas ColacchioFalmouth$439K
- Adam RanaFalmouth$330K
- John HerzogFalmouth$258K
- Stephen RodrigueFalmouth$12K
- Gregory SawyerFalmouth$11K
- Mats AgrenFalmouth$2K
- Matthew CamusoPortland$120K
- Ian DickeyFarmington$75K
- Daniel ShubertAugusta$64K
- Gregory PomeroyPortland$52K
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.