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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $110,989 in general payments to John Kilgore, MD across 148 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 Kilgore, 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 Kilgore, 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 Kilgore, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Clearwater, FLNPI 1770526410

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $96,000 of the $110,989 with a category attached, or 86.5%. Stryker accounts for 99.7% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $44,427 and has fallen 99.7% since, to $119 in 2025.

$110,989in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 148 payments — averaging $749.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$111K
Amgen$209
Johnson & Johnson$65
Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC$38
Theragen, Inc.$23
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$18

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$96,00086%
Travel & lodging$12,26711%
Food & beverage$2,7232%

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
Stryker	140	$110,637
Amgen	2	$209
Johnson & Johnson	2	$65
Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC	2	$38
Theragen, Inc.	1	$23
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$18

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.

MAKO$108,023
TRIATHLON$140
Prolia$117

How this compares

$110,989 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 96 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$399,575

Medicare patients

554

Services billed

4,847

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	179	$8,522
Meloxicam	53	$226
Tizanidine Hcl	21	$129
Mupirocin	25	$129
Amoxicillin	50	$101
Methylprednisolone	15	$80

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Clearwater

David WhiddonClearwater$8K
Carlos LaverniaMiami$5.4M
Juan SuarezMiami$3.9M
John RedmondJacksonville$987K
Gavan DuffyJacksonville$543K
Timothy van de LeurSummerfield$511K
Edward StolarskiSarasota$445K
Andrew NoblePalm Beach Gardens$308K
Raul GostheMiami$252K
Chancellor GrayGainesville$228K

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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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