Has John Burkus received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $599,410 in general payments to John Burkus across 64 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 Burkus 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 Burkus 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 Burkus

Orthopaedic Surgery · Columbus, GANPI 1083656839

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $575,245 of the $599,410 with a category attached, or 96.0%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 96.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $122,733 and has fallen 52.7% since, to $58,025 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$599,410in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 64 payments — averaging $9365.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$575K
Globus Medical$23K
Curiteva, Inc.$1K
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$46
Next Science LLC$40
Vericel Corporation$39
plus $97 from 3 others

$440in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $146.73 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.

Medtronic$440

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$575,24596%
Consulting fees$9,7502%
Speaking & faculty fees$5,2001%
Travel & lodging$6,7401%
Food & beverage$2,4750%

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
Zimmer Biomet	24	$575,397
Globus Medical(2 entities)	32	$22,658
Curiteva, Inc.	1	$1,134
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$46
Next Science LLC	2	$40
Vericel Corporation	1	$39
Stryker	1	$36
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$35
Avanos Medical	1	$25

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.

STERNALOCK 360 SYSTEM$401,191
SternaLock Blu$174,054
XLIF$7,447
iGA$538
FormaGraft$115

How this compares

$599,410 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 654 orthopaedic surgery providers in Georgia.

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Other orthopaedic surgery in Columbus

John DorchakColumbus$3.8M
Tamara HuffColumbus$158K
Charles DecookCumming$48.3M
Ormonde MahoneyAthens$10.6M
Daxes BanitWarner Robins$5.5M
Daniel SilcoxAtlanta$3.4M
Dennis DevitoAtlanta$1.5M
Jon MinterAlpharetta$1.2M
George GuildCumming$987K
William TallyAthens$870K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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