Has George van Osten, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $321,697 in general payments to George van Osten, MD across 371 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 George van Osten, 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 George van Osten, 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.

George van Osten, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Tupelo, MSNPI 1174768287

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $194,063 of the $321,697 with a category attached, or 60.3%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 75.8% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MS 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.

$321,697in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 371 payments — averaging $867.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$244K
Medshape, Inc.$31K
Kerecis Limited$23K
Curvafix, Inc.$21K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
Amgen$298
plus $924 from 14 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$194,06360%
Speaking & faculty fees$32,43810%
Travel & lodging$25,2728%
Food & beverage$5,7142%
Education$36,05911%
Other$28,1529%

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
Zimmer Biomet	276	$243,889
Medshape, Inc.	2	$30,652
Kerecis Limited	24	$23,456
Curvafix, Inc.	10	$21,084
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	5	$1,395
Amgen	19	$298
Bioventus LLC	11	$205
Smith+Nephew	6	$133
Skeletal Dynamics Inc	2	$121
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$119
Radius Health, Inc.	4	$99
Polynovo North America LLC	1	$51
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$50
Access Pro Medical, LLC	1	$46
CSL Behring	1	$29
Organogenesis Inc.	1	$15
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$15
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC	1	$14
Pfizer	1	$13
Reprise Biomedical, Inc.	1	$13

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

$321,697 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 170 orthopaedic surgery providers in Mississippi.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$99,900

Medicare patients

129

Services billed

1,099

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	13	$82

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Jeb WilliamsTupelo$18K
Jacob SmitheyTupelo$17K
Mary GibsonTupelo$10K
Bryan FaganTupelo$8K
Matthew GravesJackson$1.2M
Edward HobgoodJackson$267K
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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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