John Roth, MD
Surgery · Lexington, KYNPI 1912921321
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (53.1%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Davol Inc. accounts for 86.8% of it on its own, with 23 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among surgery clinicians in KY 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 837 payments — averaging $979.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Davol Inc.$712K
- AbbVie$63K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$23K
- Johnson & Johnson$8K
- BD$4K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$2K
- plus $8K from 18 others
Across 42 payments — averaging $18,351 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Davol Inc.$442K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$184K
- Medtronic$117K
- BD$17K
- AbbVie$11K
- Lucid Diagnostics Inc.$500
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$326,46740%
- Speaking & faculty fees$435,29153%
- Travel & lodging$36,0314%
- Food & beverage$22,0843%
- Education$270%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Davol Inc. | 589 | $711,815 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 34 | $62,715 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 13 | $22,978 |
| Johnson & Johnson(4 entities) | 52 | $8,144 |
| BD | 23 | $3,805 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $1,982 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 12 | $1,945 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 56 | $1,792 |
| Miromatrix Medical Inc. | 1 | $1,743 |
| Medtronic | 8 | $826 |
| Novartis | 5 | $639 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 9 | $456 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 13 | $267 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 1 | $188 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $139 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $129 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $121 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 4 | $80 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 1 | $40 |
| Almirall LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Stryker | 1 | $19 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $16 |
| Venclose Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Glenmark Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- PHASIX$74,719
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$44,610
- Phasix Mesh$21,863
- STRATAFIX$17,204
- SECURESTRAP$17,085
- SURGICEL Family of Absorbable Hemostats$17,085
- STRATTICE$15,773
- REVOLVE$14,100
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$14,100
- ULTRAPRO Products$5,711
- LINX Reflux Management System$5,100
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$1,869
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$1,755
- Miromesh$1,743
- Echelon Flex$1,736
- PROCEED Products$1,021
- BOTOX$725
- COSENTYX$519
- Dextile$450
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$444
How this compares
$819,900 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 377 surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Potassium Chloride | 12 | $2,569 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 22 | $414 |
| Mupirocin | 65 | $242 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 16 | $221 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Lexington
- Joseph KimLexington$47K
- Rachel MathisLexington$26K
- Michael TottenLexington$19K
- Joshua SteinerLexington$16K
- Gustavo HuertaLexington$15K
- Matthew BaileyLexington$13K
- Eric SmithAshland$1.1M
- John OldhamLouisville$515K
- George MundayDanville$271K
- Amber KoonHenderson$210K
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.