John Bottros, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Rockford, ILNPI 1467635524
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 170 payments — averaging $498.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Techmah Medical, LLC$39K
- Smith+Nephew$37K
- Lima USA, Inc.$3K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- plus $891 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$42,44050%
- Speaking & faculty fees$19,58323%
- Travel & lodging$13,72116%
- Food & beverage$8,58610%
- Education$3510%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Techmah Medical, LLC | 37 | $39,281 |
| Smith+Nephew | 69 | $36,552 |
| Lima USA, Inc. | 18 | $2,648 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $2,442 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 15 | $1,490 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $1,378 |
| Stryker | 14 | $568 |
| Limacorporate S.p.a. | 1 | $150 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $56 |
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.
- Journey II BCS$20,026
- SmartSpace Hip$18,283
- Journey II CR$16,361
- LEGION TKS$16,233
- Journey II$13,668
- Journey II XR$13,575
- SmartSpace Knee$12,502
- NAVIO$10,306
- Smart SPACE$8,266
- Legion Revision$5,941
- Legion Hinge$5,046
- Anthology$2,419
- BIRMINGHAM HIP$2,419
- VISIONAIRE FastPak$2,348
- VISIONAIRE$1,898
- Product Portfolio$1,519
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$1,424
- POLARSTEM$1,262
- Birmingham Hip Resurfacing$1,184
- REDAPT Revision Hip System$1,184
How this compares
$84,681 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 844 orthopaedic surgery providers in Illinois.
Medicare billing
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 | 212 | $4,914 |
| Cephalexin | 215 | $1,055 |
| Pregabalin | 27 | $838 |
| Amoxicillin | 665 | $558 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 178 | $484 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 128 | $444 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 148 | $357 |
| Methylprednisolone | 59 | $258 |
| Meloxicam | 76 | $113 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 114 | $112 |
| Tranexamic Acid | 52 | $81 |
| Mupirocin | 17 | $62 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 19 | $54 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Rockford
- Scott TrenhaileRockford$2.3M
- Geoffrey van ThielRockford$506K
- Brian BearRockford$168K
- Peter BonuttiEffingham$24.3M
- Steven HaddadGlenview$12.6M
- Aaron RosenbergChicago$12.4M
- Treg BrownHerrin$6.6M
- Kamal IbrahimOakbrook Terrace$4.9M
- Wayne GoldsteinMorton Grove$4.9M
- Steven MatherDowners Grove$4.3M
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.