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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,833,927 in general payments to John Dorchak, MD across 266 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 Dorchak, 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 Dorchak, 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 Dorchak, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Columbus, GANPI 1528000379

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $3,764,874 of the $3,833,927 with a category attached, or 98.2%. Globus Medical accounts for 96.9% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,059,837, more than ten times the $28,106 reported in 2019. 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.

$3,833,927in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 266 payments — averaging $14,413 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$3.7M
Mirus, LLC$100K
Restor3d, Inc.$17K
Spineology Inc.$2K
Curiteva, Inc.$828
CGG Medical Inc$305
plus $1K from 10 others

$475in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 13 payments — averaging $36.54 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

Spineology Inc.$475
Nanovis LLC$0

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$3,764,87498%
Consulting fees$37,2941%
Speaking & faculty fees$14,4350%
Travel & lodging$6,0600%
Food & beverage$11,2650%

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
Globus Medical(2 entities)	235	$3,713,291
Mirus, LLC	3	$99,867
Restor3d, Inc.	2	$17,009
Spineology Inc.	6	$1,622
Curiteva, Inc.	2	$828
CGG Medical Inc	2	$305
Zimmer Biomet	3	$241
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	3	$225
Novapproach Spine, LLC	1	$108
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$106
Biocomposites Inc	1	$94
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	1	$72
Ulrich Medical USA, Inc.	1	$53
Stryker	3	$43
Republic Spine	1	$39
Amgen	1	$23

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.

Sable$2,540,575
Transcontinental Deformity$448,474
COHERE$432,220
Colonial TPS$138,334
EUROPA Pedicle Screw System$99,867
Colonial / Colonial TPS$43,248
COLONIAL$41,725
CYGNUS Anterior Cervical Plate$30,118
3DR Lumbar Interbody$30,118
RIGEL 3DR Cervical Interbody$30,118
IO Expandable Lumbar Interbody$30,118
CoRoent$27,095
Mesh Corpectomy Cage$14,948
ELSA ATP$8,442
MIS Lumbar Discectomy Instruments$5,940
CREO Self Drilling Screw$5,444
MIS Screw System$5,363
NexGen MIS$5,038
CREO$1,494
OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$1,489

How this compares

$3,833,927 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 654 orthopaedic surgery providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$690,294

Medicare patients

521

Services billed

6,153

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	326	$4,441
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	357	$3,820
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	355	$3,791
Pregabalin	111	$2,443
Tizanidine Hcl	22	$2,413
Gabapentin	93	$1,049
Tramadol Hcl	229	$965
Carisoprodol	43	$462
Celecoxib	27	$360
Meloxicam	86	$247
Promethazine Hcl	11	$68
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	13	$64
Levofloxacin	17	$54
Diazepam	20	$24

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Columbus

John BurkusColumbus$599K
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).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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