Has John Ackley, DO received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $80,914 in general payments to John Ackley, DO across 165 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 John Ackley, DO 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 John Ackley, DO 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.

John Ackley, DO

Orthopaedic Surgery · Waco, TXNPI 1811261985

Payments from drug & device makers

$80,914in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 165 payments — averaging $490.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$48K
Zavation Medical Products, LLC$23K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$5K
Globus Medical$2K
Stryker$1K
Cerapedics Inc.$500
plus $1K from 8 others

$4,800in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $4800.00 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.

Spinal Elements, Inc.$5K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$62,46177%
Speaking & faculty fees$1,4632%
Travel & lodging$13,42017%
Food & beverage$3,5694%

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
Medtronic	100	$48,380
Zavation Medical Products, LLC	25	$22,904
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$4,699
Globus Medical(2 entities)	15	$2,033
Stryker	7	$1,377
Cerapedics Inc.	1	$500
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	1	$454
Johnson & Johnson	3	$126
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$125
Pylant Medical	4	$108
Spinal Elements, Inc.	2	$88
Spineart USA Inc	1	$64
Abbott	2	$39
Pacira Therapeutics, 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.

CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$12,297
CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$7,705
Vivigen MIS Delivery System$4,699
I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$1,500
AERO$1,256
ES2$1,256
TRITANIUM$1,256
SERRATO$1,256
OASYS$1,256
ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$583
Pulse$376
UNID_PASS$319
ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$314
CREO MCS, Fenestrated, Sideloading$113

How this compares

$80,914 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$394,889

Medicare patients

397

Services billed

1,945

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	234	$3,673
Diclofenac Sodium	306	$3,358
Diclofenac Sodium ErDiclofenac Sodium	97	$2,912
Naproxen	129	$1,399
Naloxone Hcl	23	$1,385
Gabapentin	152	$1,147
Oxycodone Hcl	115	$1,050
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	68	$891
Tizanidine Hcl	84	$868
Methocarbamol	60	$559
Ketorolac Tromethamine	22	$367
Pregabalin	34	$267
Methylprednisolone	34	$221
Tramadol Hcl	19	$146
Meloxicam	51	$92

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Waco

Stephen BurkhartSan Antonio$185.3M
Kirby HittTemple$9.1M
J Richard EvansonPlano$8.1M
Stefan KreuzerHouston$7M
Robert GrahamAustin$6.3M
Richard JonesDallas$6.3M
Howard HarrisBedford$4.6M
Tiffany HuynhHouston$4.6M
Michael WirthSan Antonio$4.5M
Stephen IncavoHouston$4.3M

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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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