John Edwards, MD
Neurological Surgery · Lehi, UTNPI 1568692887
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (44.9%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 27 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.7%. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $4,215 and has fallen 77.0% since, to $971 in 2025.
Across 90 payments — averaging $87.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$2K
- Arthrex$1K
- Medtronic$1K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$1K
- International Rehabilitative Sciences, Inc$580
- Active Medical, LLC$511
- plus $1K from 21 others
Across 20 payments — averaging $5828.75 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.
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$95K
- Eli Lilly$22K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,83023%
- Travel & lodging$1,32117%
- Food & beverage$3,55345%
- Education$1,20015%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 3 | $1,875 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $1,412 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 29 | $1,277 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 8 | $1,104 |
| International Rehabilitative Sciences, Inc | 2 | $580 |
| Active Medical, LLC | 3 | $511 |
| Boston Scientific | 13 | $266 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $155 |
| Abbott | 2 | $112 |
| Stryker | 4 | $94 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 4 | $64 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $62 |
| Omniscient Neurotechnology America Ltd | 2 | $53 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $48 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $40 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $38 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $26 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $14 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company | 1 | $11 |
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.
- KYMRIAH$1,830
- Lattus$620
- RS 4i Plus Sequential Stimulator$495
- O-ARM-ST$346
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$171
- 7D Surgical System$139
- M6-C$122
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$113
- MazorX - Renaissance$103
How this compares
$7,904 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 75 neurological surgery providers in Utah.
Medicare billing
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.
Other neurological surgery in Lehi
- Brian AndersonLehi$82K
- Andrea BrockLehi$5K
- Mark MahanSalt Lake City$698K
- Ramesh GrandhiSalt Lake City$586K
- Howard ReichmanProvo$451K
- Marion WalkerSlc$381K
- Kenneth YonemuraSalt Lake City$117K
- Ian DorwardProvo$104K
- Andrew DaileySalt Lake City$74K
- Craig KilburgSalt Lake City$66K
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.