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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,125,816 in general payments to John Rhee, MD across 160 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 Rhee, 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 Rhee, 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 Rhee, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Atlanta, GANPI 1134221872

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $972,572 of the $1,125,816 with a category attached, or 86.4%. Stryker accounts for 79.9% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $364,663 and has fallen 92.9% since, to $25,766 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$1,125,816in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 160 payments — averaging $7036.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$900K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$132K
Zimmer Biomet$50K
Medtronic$42K
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$313
Cerapedics Inc.$146
plus $258 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$972,57286%
Consulting fees$130,72312%
Speaking & faculty fees$3,9000%
Travel & lodging$14,6481%
Food & beverage$3,9730%

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
Stryker	39	$900,085
Alphatec Spine, Inc	44	$132,458
Zimmer Biomet	29	$50,414
Medtronic(2 entities)	41	$42,143
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$313
Cerapedics Inc.	1	$146
GE HealthCare	1	$128
Misonix Inc	1	$97
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	1	$17
Beigene USA, Inc.	1	$17

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.

TRITANIUM$794,011
XIA 3$79,247
Other - Miscellaneous$35,949
Gallery Laminoplasty$25,815
NAVIGATION$25,610
CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$25,610
INFINITY OCCIPITOCERVICAL UPPER THORACIC SYSTEM$19,023
Maxan Cervical System$16,200
Mobi-C$13,350
Battalion TLIF - PC$7,500
Virage$7,388
ROI-C$6,300
Lineum Posterior Cervical$6,300
ZEVO$3,900
CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$3,000
ANATOMIC PEEK PTC CERVICAL FUSION SYSTEM$1,350
EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,158
ZEVO ANTERIOR CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$900
PRESTIGE LP CERVICAL DISC SYSTEM$900
ATLANTIS ANTERIOR CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$450

How this compares

$1,125,816 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 57 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$343,275

Medicare patients

275

Services billed

1,080

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
Gabapentin	59	$917
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	81	$813
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	44	$664
Ondansetron Hcl	103	$577
Tizanidine Hcl	37	$410
Methylprednisolone	52	$287
Tramadol Hcl	57	$258
Oxycodone Hcl	41	$250
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	18	$216
Pregabalin	17	$209
Methocarbamol	31	$181
Prednisone	43	$107

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Atlanta

John HellerAtlanta$4.2M
Scott BodenAtlanta$1.5M
Paul JeffordsAtlanta$651K
Melanie KinchenAtlanta$254K
Sangwook YoonAtlanta$227K
Keith MichaelAtlanta$194K
Brian GohAtlanta$23K
Krishna GumidyalaAtlanta$19K
Plas JamesAtlanta$10K
Douglass JohnsonAtlanta$7K

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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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