John Callaghan
Orthopaedic Surgery · Iowa City, IANPI 1154316636
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $23,078,339 of the $23,277,500 with a category attached, or 99.1%. Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. accounts for 99.5% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in IA 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.
Across 214 payments — averaging $108,773 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$23.2M
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$111K
- Globus Medical$72
- Covidien LP$25
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$23,078,33999%
- Consulting fees$161,9891%
- Travel & lodging$35,3370%
- Food & beverage$1,8350%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 158 | $23,166,123 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 53 | $111,281 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $72 |
| Covidien LP | 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.
How this compares
$23,277,500 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 219 orthopaedic surgery providers in Iowa.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Iowa City
- Brian AdamsIowa City$865K
- Cesar de Cesar NettoIowa City$693K
- Robert WestermannIowa City$182K
- Joseph BuckwalterIowa City$132K
- Brendan PattersonIowa City$122K
- Nicholas BedardIowa City$59K
- Charles ClarkIowa City$50K
- Dallas VanornyIowa City$37K
- Joseph GalvinIowa City$28K
- John GreenIowa City$18K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.