RxDoctor Payments Data

John Curtis, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Bessemer, ALNPI 1487622031

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,375in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 73 payments — averaging $101.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Arthrex$3K
  • Encore Medical, LP$2K
  • Johnson & Johnson$301
  • Ortho Development Corporation$277
  • Smith+Nephew$165
  • Prime Surgical, LLC$124
  • plus $1K from 27 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$4,80065%
  • Travel & lodging$1963%
  • Food & beverage$2,37932%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$7,375 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 319 orthopaedic surgery providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$57,989
Medicare patients
126
Services billed
617

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Desoximetasone12$5,400
EliquisApixaban17$5,374
Clobetasol Propionate47$4,729
Meloxicam630$3,011
XareltoRivaroxaban11$2,769
Allopurinol30$2,453
Halobetasol Propionate11$2,437
Tranexamic Acid22$1,265
Celecoxib130$1,219
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen92$784
Methylprednisolone69$644
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen62$441
Ibuprofen20$373
Doxycycline Hyclate25$298
Doxycycline Monohydrate16$258

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
PfizerEliquis$106$5,37417 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$301$2,76911 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 65th percentile of 319 orthopaedic surgery providers in Alabama.

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