Has John Adams, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,548 in general payments to John Adams, MD across 33 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 Adams, 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 John Adams, 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.

John Adams, MD

Surgery · Columbus, GANPI 1457472094

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,037 of the $1,548 with a category attached, or 67.0%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 40.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $997 and has fallen 87.8% since, to $122 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery clinicians in GA, where the typical reported total is $1,913.

$1,548in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 33 payments — averaging $46.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$631
Intuitive Surgical$499
Davol Inc.$110
Dilon Technologies, Inc.$63
Conmed Corporation$41
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$35
plus $170 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$51133%
Food & beverage$1,03767%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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(2 entities)	8	$631
Intuitive Surgical	5	$499
Davol Inc.	4	$110
Dilon Technologies, Inc.	1	$63
Conmed Corporation	2	$41
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$35
Baxter Healthcare	2	$35
Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.	2	$32
Merck	2	$28
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$27
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$18
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	1	$16
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$14

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.

Da Vinci Surgical System$459
INTERSTIM$456

How this compares

$1,548 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 855 surgery providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$109,897

Medicare patients

232

Services billed

476

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	86	$437
Neomycin Sulfate	23	$120
Metronidazole	23	$39

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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