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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,002,616 in general payments to John Adams, MD across 1,078 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

Orthopaedic Trauma · Greenville, SCNPI 1629206255

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (55.5%), consulting fees and royalties or licence payments — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Arthrex accounts for 91.8% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $319,912, more than ten times the $26,985 reported in 2019.

$1,002,616in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,078 payments — averaging $930.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$920K
Smith+Nephew$44K
Stryker$21K
Synthes GmbH$7K
Peerless Surgical Inc.$5K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
plus $3K from 10 others

$149,109in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $12,426 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.

Arthrex$149K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$85,6089%
Consulting fees$270,90627%
Speaking & faculty fees$556,66456%
Travel & lodging$64,2136%
Food & beverage$19,7772%
Education$5,4491%

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
Arthrex	917	$920,271
Smith+Nephew	47	$43,952
Stryker	57	$21,074
Synthes GmbH	6	$7,236
Peerless Surgical Inc.	29	$5,166
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$2,206
Reel Surgical, Inc.	2	$1,225
Medinc Of Texas	8	$917
Alpha Orthopedic Systems	1	$162
Zimmer Biomet	1	$136
Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC	1	$132
Boston Scientific	3	$72
Convatec Inc.	1	$22
Radius Health, Inc.	1	$19
Acell, Inc.	1	$16
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	1	$11

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.

ARTHREX$262,247
EVOS$81,204
EVOS MINI$37,664
TRIGEN InterTAN$16,221
TRIGEN$14,924
PRO$9,600
KNEE & HIP IMPLANTS SUSPENSORY FIXATION ACL TIGHTROPE$5,775
T2$5,295
AXSOS$4,781
VARIAX$3,885
AOS TROCHANTERIC NAIL 10mm x 20cm x 125$3,827
EXTREMITIES & TRAUMA IMPLANTS LONG BONE TRAUMA TROCHANTERIC FRACTURE$2,250
EXTREMITIES & TRAUMA IMPLANTS LONG BONE TRAUMA TIBIAL FRACTURE$2,250
HOFFMANN$1,417
MAGNUM$1,077
PELVIS II$824
GAMMA$800
DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS TRAUMA ANKLE FRACTURE$400
PRIME SERIES$337
DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS TRAUMA PATELLA FRACTURE$300

How this compares

Too few orthopaedic trauma providers in South Carolinato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$98,887

Medicare patients

117

Services billed

390

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.

Other orthopaedic trauma in Greenville

Kyle JerayGreenville$177K
Thomas SchallerGreenville$16K
Michael SridharGreenville$7K
Coleman FowbleColumbia$208K
Kevin PughFlorence$94K
Kristoff ReidCharleston$17K
Jeremy SparkmanFlorence$16K
Jared NewmanCharleston$11K
Daniel CunninghamColumbia$8K
James BlackSpartanburg$8K

See the full list for South Carolina →

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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