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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,018 in general payments to John Lapkass, MD across 51 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 Lapkass, 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 Lapkass, 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 Lapkass, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Anchorage, AKNPI 1154363166

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,577 of the $2,018 with a category attached, or 78.1%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimmer Biomet at 37.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $606 and has fallen 91.5% since, to $52 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in AK, where the typical reported total is $3,204.

$2,018in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 51 payments — averaging $39.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$748
Stryker$185
Acumed LLC$183
Smith+Nephew$169
KCI USA, Inc.$149
Solventum Corporation$88
plus $494 from 15 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,57778%
Education$44122%

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
Zimmer Biomet	7	$748
Stryker	8	$185
Acumed LLC	6	$183
Smith+Nephew	6	$169
KCI USA, Inc.	2	$149
Solventum Corporation	1	$88
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$80
Bioventus LLC	2	$61
Abbott	2	$56
BD	2	$43
Johnson & Johnson	2	$40
My01 Inc.	1	$33
Organogenesis Inc.	1	$29
Avanos Medical	2	$29
Radius Health, Inc.	1	$23
Axogen	1	$21
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$21
Convatec Inc.	1	$20
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$16
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$12
Si-bone, Inc.	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.

How this compares

$2,018 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 63 orthopaedic surgery providers in Alaska.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$90,618

Medicare patients

134

Services billed

2,284

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.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Anchorage

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Kenneth ThomasAnchorage$35K
Jason GrayAnchorage$17K
Ian BrimhallAnchorage$17K
Thomas PaynterAnchorage$14K
Kevin PaisleyAnchorage$10K
Daniel CepelaAnchorage$9K
Lars MatkinAnchorage$9K
Adam EllisonAnchorage$8K

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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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