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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $13,658 in general payments to John Prather, MD across 130 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 Prather, 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 Prather, 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 Prather, MD

Foot and Ankle Surgery · Savannah, GANPI 1649494360

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (33.6%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Mirus, LLC at 32.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $6,639 and has fallen 97.9% since, to $142 in 2025.

$13,658in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 130 payments — averaging $105.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Mirus, LLC$4K
Stryker$3K
Team 1, LLC$3K
Arthrex$2K
Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC$681
Amgen$381
plus $1K from 15 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$4,00029%
Travel & lodging$4,58634%
Food & beverage$3,87228%
Education$1,2009%

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
Mirus, LLC	4	$4,414
Stryker(2 entities)	31	$2,678
Team 1, LLC	3	$2,630
Arthrex	12	$1,841
Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC	8	$681
Amgen(2 entities)	49	$381
Smith+Nephew	5	$173
Medline Industries LP	1	$148
Avanos Medical	1	$142
Boston Scientific	2	$117
International Life Sciences	1	$102
Linvatec Corporation	1	$88
Medshape, Inc.	1	$51
Organogenesis Inc.	2	$48
Bioventus LLC	2	$34
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$27
Paragon 28, Inc.	2	$26
Flower Orthopedics Coporation	1	$24
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.	1	$21
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	1	$18
Zimmer Biomet	1	$14

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.

ATLAS Plating System$4,399
AURORA Screw System$4,399
INFINITY$1,795
Medical Implant$506
PROstep$261
GENERATOR$142
EXTREMITIES & TRAUMA IMPLANTS HINDFOOT & ANKLE ANKLE FRACTURE$132
INBONE$118
EVOS$105
FLEXBAND$102
GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$100

How this compares

$13,658 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 239 foot and ankle surgery providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$196,655

Medicare patients

599

Services billed

2,931

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
Diclofenac Sodium	33	$1,797
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	115	$976
Celecoxib	77	$943
Gabapentin	89	$689
Ondansetron Hcl	67	$539
Methylprednisolone	46	$276
Meloxicam	48	$128
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	17	$112
Doxycycline Hyclate	17	$106
Cephalexin	17	$90
Colchicine	14	$71
Tramadol Hcl	20	$58
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	19	$52

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other foot and ankle surgery in Savannah

Steven ShapiroSavannah$6K
Robert WeinsteinFayetteville$394K
Jason BariteauAtlanta$199K
Scott RomanPeachtree City$118K
Jeffrey FlashForest Park$114K
Mickey StappThomson$110K
David MurphyWaycross$55K
Rishin KadakiaAtlanta$53K
Javan BassLithonia$43K
Bhavin MehtaAtlanta$43K

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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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