Joe Gordon
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery · Saint Louis, MONPI 1558389288
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $953,815 of the $1,002,605 with a category attached, or 95.1%. Orthopediatrics Corp. accounts for 98.6% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among pediatric orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MO 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.
Across 103 payments — averaging $9734.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Orthopediatrics Corp.$988K
- Smith+Nephew$14K
- Wishbone Medical Inc.$167
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$953,81595%
- Consulting fees$22,7702%
- Speaking & faculty fees$21,2782%
- Travel & lodging$3,6600%
- Food & beverage$1,0810%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Orthopediatrics Corp. | 95 | $988,340 |
| Smith+Nephew | 7 | $14,098 |
| Wishbone Medical Inc. | 1 | $167 |
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.
- Orthopediatric Implants$98,296
- ILIZAROV$12,528
- Pedi-Nail$3,500
- Taylor Spatial Frame$1,511
How this compares
$1,002,605 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 28 pediatric orthopaedic surgery providers in Missouri.
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Other pediatric orthopaedic surgery in Saint Louis
- Scott LuhmannSaint Louis$2.2M
- Jeffrey NeppleSaint Louis$177K
- Brian KellySaint Louis$17K
- Shaun ConleySaint Louis$15K
- Adam NasreddineSaint Louis$13K
- Blake MontgomerySaint Louis$8K
- David AndersonSaint Louis$4K
- Matthew HooperSaint Louis$3K
- Dustin BakerSaint Louis$3K
- Cody SandersonSaint Louis$2K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.