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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,546 in general payments to John Gee, MD across 117 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 Gee, 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 Gee, 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 Gee, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Valdosta, GANPI 1972575983

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (54.4%), food and beverage and entertainment — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by CGG Medical Inc at 42.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $4,665 and has fallen 90.8% since, to $431 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in GA, where the typical reported total is $16,983.

$7,546in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 117 payments — averaging $64.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

CGG Medical Inc$3K
Centinel Spine, LLC$1K
Arthrex$884
Nevro Corp.$791
Spineology Inc.$523
Cerapedics Inc.$241
plus $724 from 12 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$4,10654%
Food & beverage$3,38045%
Entertainment$611%

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
CGG Medical Inc	4	$3,217
Centinel Spine, LLC	8	$1,167
Arthrex	18	$884
Nevro Corp.	55	$791
Spineology Inc.	7	$523
Cerapedics Inc.	4	$241
Boston Scientific	6	$211
Neo Spine USA, Inc.	2	$139
Zimmer Biomet	2	$138
Abbott	2	$50
Globus Medical	2	$35
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$34
Elevation Spine, Inc.	1	$29
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$23
Vertex	1	$20
Stryker	1	$16
Pfizer	1	$16
Amgen	1	$13

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.

PRODISC L$713
OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$319
PRODISC C VIVO$250
Ortho - None$113
Neo Pedicle Screw System$106
I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$105

How this compares

$7,546 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 57 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$465,370

Medicare patients

605

Services billed

33,971

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	156	$2,434
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	160	$2,141
Gabapentin	232	$2,068
Methylprednisolone	201	$1,419
Lidocaine	15	$1,091
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	76	$984
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	174	$962
Tramadol Hcl	175	$895
Methocarbamol	70	$772
Calcitonin-SalmonCalcitonin,salmon,synthetic	13	$769
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	42	$699
Tizanidine Hcl	89	$662
Meloxicam	153	$404
Diazepam	209	$390
Pregabalin	31	$340

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Valdosta

John HellerAtlanta$4.2M
Scott BodenAtlanta$1.5M
Justin BundyAugusta$1.4M
John RheeAtlanta$1.1M
Tapan DaftariAustell$759K
Brad PrybisStockbridge$659K
Paul JeffordsAtlanta$651K
Raphael RoybalSavannah$400K
Hewatt SimsDouglas$376K
James MalcolmMarietta$295K

See the full list for Georgia →

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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