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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,789 in general payments to John Gavin, MD across 40 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 Gavin, 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 Gavin, 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 Gavin, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Hilton Head, SCNPI 1336112416

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,128 of the $1,789 with a category attached, or 63.1%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Catalyst Orthoscience at 38.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $725 and has fallen 92.5% since, to $54 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $2,843.

$1,789in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 40 payments — averaging $44.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Catalyst Orthoscience$686
Stryker$222
Omnilife Science, Inc$169
Exactech, Inc.$149
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$120
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$104
plus $339 from 12 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$201%
Travel & lodging$64136%
Food & beverage$1,12863%

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
Catalyst Orthoscience	6	$686
Stryker	5	$222
Omnilife Science, Inc	2	$169
Exactech, Inc.	2	$149
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	8	$120
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$104
Smith+Nephew	2	$70
Dynasplint Systems Inc.	2	$61
Johnson & Johnson	2	$37
Bioventus LLC	2	$29
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$25
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$23
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$21
Peerless Surgical Inc.	1	$18
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$16
Medtronic	1	$15
Convatec Inc.	1	$14
Amgen	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.

CSR & R1 Reverse Total Shoulder Systems$510
R1 Reverse Total Shoulder$510
Archer 3D Software$510
AEQUALIS PERFORM$139
ALTEON$133
Integrity$104

How this compares

$1,789 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 325 orthopaedic surgery providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$224,167

Medicare patients

603

Services billed

2,953

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
Celecoxib	80	$1,400
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	67	$1,129
Prednisone	49	$785
Diclofenac Sodium	84	$474
Methylprednisolone	62	$355
Meloxicam	114	$278
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	30	$263
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	40	$252
Etodolac	13	$216
Tizanidine Hcl	33	$86
Tramadol Hcl	30	$74
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	12	$49
Amoxicillin	48	$39

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Hilton Head

William SmithColumbia$7.7M
Richard FrischMt Pleasant$1M
Brent PonceCharleston$874K
Chi LimSpartanburg$320K
Todd LansfordNorth Charleston$286K
Nicholas GrimaldiColumbia$203K
Richard MarksWest Columbia$176K
James LogingClinton$118K
Justin SmithRock Hill$102K
Matthew DuffinRock Hill$98K

See the full list for South Carolina →

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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