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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $68,124 in general payments to John Dorris, MD across 45 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 Dorris, 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 Dorris, 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 Dorris, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Athens, GANPI 1104807429

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by ownership interests: $64,596 of the $68,124 with a category attached, or 94.8%. Tracpatch Health, Inc accounts for 94.8% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $34,758 and has fallen 99.6% since, to $123 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$68,124in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 45 payments — averaging $1513.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Tracpatch Health, Inc$65K
Shalby Advanced Technologies, Inc.$2K
Stryker$548
Osteoremedies, LLC$417
Encore Medical, LP$167
Arthrosurface Incorporated$82
plus $347 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$450%
Consulting fees$1,5002%
Food & beverage$1,9833%
Ownership interest$64,59695%

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
Tracpatch Health, Inc	4	$64,596
Shalby Advanced Technologies, Inc.	7	$1,967
Stryker	11	$548
Osteoremedies, LLC	3	$417
Encore Medical, LP	4	$167
Arthrosurface Incorporated	4	$82
FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc	1	$79
Ossio Inc	1	$76
Smith+Nephew	1	$54
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	4	$53
Bioventus LLC	2	$31
DJO, LLC	1	$23
Johnson & Johnson	1	$18
Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$13

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

$68,124 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 654 orthopaedic surgery providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$283,586

Medicare patients

507

Services billed

4,684

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 Hcl	254	$1,421
Celecoxib	36	$440
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	52	$423
Meloxicam	218	$414
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	48	$393
Tramadol Hcl	128	$329
Prednisone	55	$298
Diclofenac Sodium	27	$177
Ondansetron Hcl	28	$141
Cephalexin	23	$140
Famotidine	17	$136
Gabapentin	31	$132
Hydromorphone Hcl	24	$113
Clindamycin Hcl	44	$101
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	16	$52

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Athens

Ormonde MahoneyAthens$10.6M
William TallyAthens$870K
Julian PriceAthens$805K
Charles OgburnAthens$248K
Charles DecookCumming$48.3M
Daxes BanitWarner Robins$5.5M
John DorchakColumbus$3.8M
Daniel SilcoxAtlanta$3.4M
Dennis DevitoAtlanta$1.5M
Jon MinterAlpharetta$1.2M

See the full list for Georgia →

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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