Has Joe George, DPM received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $165,912 in general payments to Joe George, DPM across 260 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 Joe George, DPM 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 Joe George, DPM 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.

Joe George, DPM

Foot & Ankle Surgery · Joliet, ILNPI 1114068202

Payments from drug & device makers

$165,912in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 260 payments — averaging $638.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Microaire Surgical Instruments LLC$84K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$24K
Johnson & Johnson$17K
Linvatec Corporation$17K
In2bones USA, LLC$11K
Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC$2K
plus $12K from 45 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$90,61955%
Speaking & faculty fees$42,78726%
Grants$2,5002%
Travel & lodging$16,90610%
Food & beverage$10,5986%
Education$2,5022%

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
Microaire Surgical Instruments LLC	45	$83,657
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	35	$24,230
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	22	$16,640
Linvatec Corporation	28	$16,526
In2bones USA, LLC	12	$10,687
Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC	12	$2,129
Synthes USA Products LLC	2	$2,082
Access Pro Medical, LLC	3	$1,781
Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC	5	$1,694
Imbed Biosciences Inc.	11	$1,124
Elite Orthopedics, LLC	1	$1,002
Zimmer Biomet	9	$603
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	12	$477
Sanara Medtech Inc.	4	$349
Stryker(2 entities)	6	$300
Ossio Inc	1	$290
Bone Support Inc.	3	$289
Smith+Nephew	4	$228
Abbott	2	$193
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	2	$168
Celularity Inc.	1	$163
Acera Surgical, Inc.	2	$155
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$147
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	1	$137
Amgen(2 entities)	7	$117
Paragon 28, Inc.	2	$109
Restor3d, Inc.	1	$82
Mimedx Group, Inc.	2	$58
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.	1	$42
Boston Scientific	1	$32
Ossur Americas, Inc.	1	$31
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$28
Vericel Corporation	1	$24
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	2	$24
Convatec Inc.	1	$24
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated	1	$24
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$22
Merck	1	$21
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$20
Organogenesis Inc.	1	$19
Medline Industries LP	1	$19
Terumo BCT, Inc.	1	$19
Nextremity Solutions Inc.	1	$18
Polynovo North America LLC	1	$17
Baudax Bio Inc.	1	$17
AbbVie	1	$17
Theragen, Inc.	1	$17
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$17
Next Science LLC	1	$16
Deroyal Industries, Inc.	1	$14
Sonex Health, 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

$165,912 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 555 foot & ankle surgery providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$883,760

Medicare patients

236

Services billed

2,891

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
Gabapentin	32	$293
Ciclopirox	13	$245
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	19	$188
Meloxicam	32	$171
Ketoconazole	12	$122
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	13	$88
Tizanidine Hcl	11	$85

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other foot & ankle surgery in Joliet

Douglas PacaccioRockford$4.3M
Anand VoraLibertyville$3.2M
Lowell WeilMount Prospect$2.4M
Matthew SorensenAlgonquin$1.1M
Edgardo Rodriguez CollazoChicago$755K
David GarrasOrland Park$658K
Patrick McEneaneyCary$586K
Brian BurgessNaperville$496K
Kyle PearsonMorris$208K
Stephanie OexemanChicago$206K

See the full list for Illinois →

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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