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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $669,497 in general payments to John Lankenau, MD across 96 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 Lankenau, 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 Lankenau, 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 Lankenau, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Lake Havasu City, AZNPI 1275561425

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $665,605 of the $669,497 with a category attached, or 99.4%. Orthofix Medical, Inc. accounts for 91.2% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in AZ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$669,497in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 96 payments — averaging $6973.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Orthofix Medical, Inc.$611K
Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C.$55K
CTL Medical Corporation$2K
Life Spine, Inc.$449
Si-bone, Inc.$327
Zimvie Inc.$246
plus $409 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$665,60599%
Consulting fees$2,0000%
Food & beverage$1,3800%
Education$1890%
Other$3240%

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
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	61	$610,840
Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C.	7	$55,188
CTL Medical Corporation	2	$2,038
Life Spine, Inc.	4	$449
Si-bone, Inc.	6	$327
Zimvie Inc.	2	$246
Medtronic(2 entities)	8	$136
Biocircuit Technologies Inc	1	$133
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	2	$56
Spinal Elements, Inc.	1	$32
Choice Spine, LLC	1	$29
Spineology Inc.	1	$24

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.

Firebird$318,901
Firebird Deformity Correction System$145,798
Firebird NXG Spinal Fixation System$145,027
Firebird Spinal Fixation System$116,641
JANUS Midline Fixation Screw$115,451
FORZA PEEK Spacer System$96,806
FORZA PTC Spacer System$95,332
PHOENIX Minimally Invasive Spinal Fixation System$85,591
Physio-Stim$68,110
Phoenix CDX$58,113
Lumbar Plate$53,018
Apache$42,811
FORZA$15,751
FORZA XP Expandable Spacer System$4,067
Spinal$2,000
iFuse Implant$249
Biomet SpinalPak Non-invasive Spine Fusion Stimulator System$189
ProLift Lateral$139
Nerve Tape$133
ProLift$130

How this compares

$669,497 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 377 orthopaedic surgery providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$73,424

Medicare patients

127

Services billed

326

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-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	20	$160

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Lake Havasu City

Evan LedermanPhoenix$12M
James ChowPhoenix$6.1M
Michael McKeePhoenix$3.4M
Henry ClarkePhoenix$1.9M
Mark CampbellSun City West$788K
Samuel HarmsenPhoenix$735K
Paul GauseScottsdale$614K
Bertrand KaperScottsdale$482K
Martin BenoitPeoria$453K
Anthony HedleyPhoenix$415K

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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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