Has Jacob Stirton, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $42,098 in general payments to Jacob Stirton, MD across 94 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 Jacob Stirton, 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 Jacob Stirton, 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.

Jacob Stirton, MD

Sports Medicine · Blairsville, GANPI 1174966303

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (58.9%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Exactech, Inc. at 45.8% of the total. Among sports medicine clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$42,098in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 94 payments — averaging $447.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Exactech, Inc.$19K
Advita Ortho, LLC$7K
Smith+Nephew$7K
Arthrex$4K
Alpha Orthopedic Systems$2K
Acumed LLC$1K
plus $1K from 9 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$24,78259%
Travel & lodging$5,18312%
Food & beverage$3,3618%
Education$8,77221%

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
Exactech, Inc.	15	$19,284
Advita Ortho, LLC	3	$7,243
Smith+Nephew	23	$7,035
Arthrex	26	$4,355
Alpha Orthopedic Systems	4	$1,889
Acumed LLC	3	$1,194
Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC	6	$372
Johnson & Johnson	1	$226
Linvatec Corporation	2	$205
Bioventus LLC	3	$92
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	3	$84
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$37
Stryker	2	$33
Abbott	1	$32
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$17

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.

EQUINOXE$26,500
Hand Fracture System$1,045
Elbow Plating System$1,045
Radial Head Plating System$1,045
Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$1,028
Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$672
MICRORAPTOR$538
Q-FIX$538
EXACTECHGPS$304
CORAIL$226
BioBrace 23mm$161
HALL POWER$161
ALLOGRAFT TISSUE$161
Acu-Loc/Acu-Loc 2 Wrist Plating System$149
Acutrak/Acutrak 2 Screws - Micro, Mini, Std, Fusion$149
Hand Plates$149
Regeneten$149
Healicoil$149

How this compares

$42,098 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 168 sports medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$397,488

Medicare patients

1,019

Services billed

11,864

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
Methylprednisolone	289	$1,444
Ondansetron Hcl	281	$1,372
Meloxicam	515	$1,210
Oxycodone Hcl	323	$1,163
Tramadol Hcl	99	$1,062
Mupirocin	193	$1,010
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl	13	$934
Ibuprofen	271	$813
Cephalexin	181	$470
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	44	$389
Doxycycline Hyclate	32	$367
Celecoxib	28	$282
Amoxicillin	247	$212
Gabapentin	19	$151
Clindamycin Hcl	53	$69

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other sports medicine in Blairsville

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Joseph BurnsAlpharetta$376K
Sameh LabibBrookhaven$280K
Spero KarasAtlanta$137K
Xavier DuraldeAtlanta$77K
Thomas MyersAtlanta$72K
Robert O'ConnellCarrollton$69K
Elan GolanSnellville$57K
Taylor PolanderJesup$48K
Anthony CantrellCanton$47K

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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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