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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $51,790 in general payments to John Steele, MD across 70 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 Steele, 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 Steele, 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 Steele, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Towson, MDNPI 1881057131

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $33,838 of the $51,790 with a category attached, or 65.3%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 62.3% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $31,494, 2.3 times the $13,610 reported in 2022.

$51,790in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 70 payments — averaging $739.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$32K
Smith+Nephew$12K
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$6K
Johnson & Johnson$788
Stryker$558
C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries$164
plus $292 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$33,83865%
Travel & lodging$2,9186%
Food & beverage$3,0356%
Education$12,00023%

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
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	35	$32,257
Smith+Nephew	3	$12,088
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	3	$5,644
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	12	$788
Stryker	7	$558
C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries	2	$164
Orthalign Inc	1	$143
Native Surgical, LLC	3	$80
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	3	$52
Zimmer Biomet	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.

How this compares

$51,790 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 33 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$561,727

Medicare patients

871

Services billed

5,893

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	64	$1,691
Methylprednisolone	127	$841
Mupirocin	111	$672
Meloxicam	193	$632
Doxycycline Hyclate	13	$183
Amoxicillin	97	$141
Gabapentin	26	$64
Clindamycin Hcl	14	$33

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Towson

Michael MontBaltimore$10.9M
Randal LewisChevy Chase$2.6M
Sridhar DurbhakulaBethesda$766K
Pasquale PetreraSalisbury$137K
Pablo WagnerBaltimore$118K
James NaceBaltimore$102K
Ryan ScullyChevy Chase$43K
David SilberWestminster$37K
Mark HasenauerBaltimore$35K
James MacdonaldAnnapolis$25K

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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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