George Pappas, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Boston, MANPI 1487775813
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 44 payments — averaging $62.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Stryker$166
- Novo Nordisk$55
- Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.$53
- Abbott$50
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$50
- plus $326 from 12 others
Across 12 payments — averaging $5469.92 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$66K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,11940%
- Food & beverage$1,65160%
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 | 20 | $2,070 |
| Stryker | 1 | $166 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $55 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| Abbott | 3 | $50 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $45 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $41 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $34 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $33 |
| Curonix LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 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.
- Q-FIX Hip$1,400
- Hipstruments$1,400
- Regeneten$377
- ACCUPASS DIRECT Crescent XL$284
- ICONIX$166
- LENS Surgical Imaging System$118
How this compares
$2,770 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 542 orthopaedic surgery providers in Massachusetts.
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 | 43 | $837 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Boston
- Paul TornettaBoston$16.7M
- Thomas ThornhillBoston$12M
- Andrew FreibergBoston$5.9M
- Jon WarnerBoston$5.5M
- Wolfgang FitzBoston$3.7M
- Young Min KwonBoston$2.8M
- Lyle MicheliBoston$996K
- Tony TannouryBoston$912K
- John KwonBoston$673K
- Christopher ChiodoBoston$539K
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.