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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,362 in general payments to John Frankel, MD across 46 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 Frankel, 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 Frankel, 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 Frankel, MD

Colon & Rectal Surgery · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1679991665

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (34.3%), consulting fees and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 40.3% of the total.

$5,362in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 46 payments — averaging $116.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$2K
Johnson & Johnson$2K
Axonics, Inc.$432
Stryker$215
Medtronic$197
Boston Scientific$145
plus $280 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,76033%
Travel & lodging$76314%
Food & beverage$1,83934%
Education$1,00019%

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
Intuitive Surgical	14	$2,159
Johnson & Johnson	4	$1,933
Axonics, Inc.	11	$432
Stryker	2	$215
Medtronic	4	$197
Boston Scientific	2	$145
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$110
Baxter Healthcare	1	$43
AbbVie	2	$42
Olympus America Inc.	2	$33
AstraZeneca	1	$19
Antares Pharma, Inc.	1	$18
Conmed Corporation	1	$15

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

$5,362 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 101 colon & rectal surgery providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$87,523

Medicare patients

142

Services billed

299

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	23	$117
Gabapentin	13	$32
Diazepam	14	$19

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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