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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $29,338 in general payments to John Meehan, MD across 38 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 Meehan, 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 Meehan, 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 Meehan, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Sacramento, CANPI 1073504148

Payments from drug & device makers

$29,338in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 38 payments — averaging $772.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Orthalign Inc$17K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$10K
Abbott$645
Johnson & Johnson$636
Stryker$357
Zimmer Biomet$251
plus $574 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$25,05085%
Travel & lodging$2,0457%
Food & beverage$2,2448%

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
Orthalign Inc	13	$17,211
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	6	$9,664
Abbott	2	$645
Johnson & Johnson	6	$636
Stryker	3	$357
Zimmer Biomet	2	$251
Smith+Nephew	2	$190
Next Science LLC	1	$184
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$111
Vertex	1	$59
Avanos Medical	1	$30

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

$29,338 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$210,833

Medicare patients

538

Services billed

903

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	41	$1,033
Amoxicillin	116	$322
Oxycodone Hcl	64	$283
Azithromycin	25	$162
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	27	$120
Pregabalin	11	$64

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Sacramento

Stephen HowellSacramento$9.4M
Christopher KreulenSacramento$3.8M
Alan HiraharaSacramento$3.4M
Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
Robert GorabOrange$14.5M
Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
Peter NewtonSan Diego$7M
Nirav AminPlacentia$5.8M
Tom NorrisSan Francisco$5.3M

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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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