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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $41,129 in general payments to John Fowler, MD across 53 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 Fowler, 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 Fowler, 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 Fowler, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1619137205

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $34,250 of the $41,129 with a category attached, or 83.3%. Integra Lifesciences Corporation accounts for 96.9% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $18,860 and has fallen 97.0% since, to $557 in 2025.

$41,129in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 53 payments — averaging $776.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Integra Lifesciences Corporation$40K
Polynovo North America LLC$289
Johnson & Johnson$211
Trimed, Inc.$187
Sonex Health, Inc.$184
Zimmer Biomet$144
plus $271 from 3 others

$3,325in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 2 payments — averaging $1662.50 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.

Integra Lifesciences Corporation$3K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$34,25083%
Travel & lodging$4,95912%
Food & beverage$1,9205%

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
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	35	$39,843
Polynovo North America LLC	3	$289
Johnson & Johnson	3	$211
Trimed, Inc.	2	$187
Sonex Health, Inc.	2	$184
Zimmer Biomet	1	$144
Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC	4	$138
Stryker	2	$116
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$17

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.

INTEGRA$44,542
CARPAL TUNNEL RELEASE SYSTEM$10,000
TENOGLIDE TENDON PROTECTOR SHEET$7,000
NEURAGEN NERVE GUIDE$7,000
PRIMATRIX$2,666
INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$2,188
TENOGLIDE$685
ADVANCED WOUND CARE$224
Sx-One Microknife$158
BIOFIX$147
BIODRESTORE$147
BIODFACTOR$147
BIODOPTIX$147
MEDIHONEY$147
Novosorb BTM$145
A.L.P.S.$144

How this compares

$41,129 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,048 orthopaedic surgery providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$106,115

Medicare patients

240

Services billed

1,249

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
Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl	11	$2,945
Celecoxib	21	$355
Lidocaine	12	$334
Gabapentin	11	$331
Ibuprofen	38	$229
Oxycodone Hcl	66	$206
Paroxetine Hcl	11	$183
Naproxen	14	$107
Montelukast Sodium	11	$84
Meloxicam	14	$63
IbuIbuprofen	15	$63
Atorvastatin Calcium	11	$57

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Anthony DigioiaPittsburgh$217K
Kenneth UrishPittsburgh$207K
William HozackBensalem$10.6M
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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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