Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,608 in general payments to John Gibbons, MD across 32 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Question 2

Does a payment mean John Gibbons, MD did something wrong?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 3

Where does this information about John Gibbons, MD come from?

Accepted Answer

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.

Company	Payments	Total
Zimmer Biomet	8	$1,062
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	15	$294
Si-bone, Inc.	3	$71
Bioventus LLC	2	$67
Medacta USA, Inc.	1	$59
Johnson & Johnson	2	$42
AbbVie	1	$13

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Etodolac	71	$2,068
Celecoxib	38	$1,842
Methylprednisolone	83	$443
Diclofenac Sodium	14	$339
Meloxicam	108	$171
Amoxicillin	105	$105
Ibuprofen	15	$67
Clindamycin Hcl	16	$17

John Gibbons, MD

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