John Fennessy, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Atlanta, GANPI 1568635324
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 22 payments — averaging $30.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Davol Inc.$204
- Vertex$95
- Smith+Nephew$83
- Stryker$62
- Bioventus LLC$61
- Amgen$38
- plus $119 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$662100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Davol Inc. | 5 | $204 |
| Vertex | 4 | $95 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $83 |
| Stryker | 2 | $62 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $61 |
| Amgen | 2 | $38 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $31 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $27 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $18 |
How this compares
$662 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 654 orthopaedic surgery providers in Georgia.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 1,064 | $34,036 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 1,191 | $32,147 |
| Daptomycin | 12 | $21,301 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 14 | $7,094 |
| Vancomycin Hcl | 19 | $5,175 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 183 | $5,050 |
| Gabapentin | 315 | $3,799 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 370 | $3,378 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 188 | $3,313 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 258 | $2,394 |
| Lidocaine | 22 | $1,561 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 106 | $1,354 |
| Prednisone | 167 | $858 |
| Ibuprofen | 76 | $830 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 32 | $515 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Atlanta
- Daniel SilcoxAtlanta$3.4M
- Dennis DevitoAtlanta$1.5M
- Erroll BaileyAtlanta$536K
- Hardeep SinghAtlanta$451K
- Jorge FabregasAtlanta$421K
- Ezequiel CassinelliAtlanta$225K
- Timothy OswaldAtlanta$220K
- James ChappuisAtlanta$206K
- Michael SchmitzAtlanta$162K
- Samuel WillimonAtlanta$109K
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.