John Major, MD
Surgery · Lagrange, GANPI 1568858710
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $56,000 of the $70,139 with a category attached, or 79.8%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 91.6% of it on its own, with 23 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $38,587, more than ten times the $3,609 reported in 2021. Among surgery clinicians in GA 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.
Across 236 payments — averaging $297.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$64K
- Enterra Medical, Inc.$2K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$1K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$687
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$277
- Medtronic$215
- plus $1K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,0003%
- Travel & lodging$2,7554%
- Food & beverage$9,38413%
- Education$56,00080%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 144 | $64,280 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 19 | $2,416 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 14 | $1,088 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 12 | $687 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 8 | $277 |
| Medtronic | 6 | $215 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 3 | $168 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $153 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Solventum Corporation | 4 | $100 |
| Conmed Corporation | 3 | $79 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $71 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $64 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $63 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $49 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Meridian Bioscience Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Stryker | 1 | $26 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Neuros Medical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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
$70,139 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 855 surgery providers in Georgia.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Esomeprazole Magnesium | 33 | $602 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 109 | $313 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Lagrange
- Grant MajorLagrange$61K
- Grant MajorLagrange$29K
- Ashley StewartLagrange$29K
- Chad CopperGainesville$999K
- Zachary KlaassenAugusta$763K
- Stephen OdomAustell$599K
- Fritz Jean-PierreMarietta$464K
- Kendra GrubbAtlanta$374K
- Harry LightfootSmyrna$241K
- Oliver WhippleSavannah$222K
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.