John Watson, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Saint Louis, MONPI 1043239254
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 465 payments — averaging $3587.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$1.3M
- Arthrex$93K
- Zimmer Biomet$85K
- Pharmaceutical Business Consultants Limited$77K
- Advanced Orthopaedic Solutions, Inc.$68K
- Globus Medical$26K
- plus $42K from 19 others
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 161 | $1,277,353 |
| Arthrex | 22 | $93,104 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 153 | $84,649 |
| Pharmaceutical Business Consultants Limited | 25 | $77,430 |
| Advanced Orthopaedic Solutions, Inc. | 14 | $67,644 |
| Globus Medical | 16 | $25,940 |
| Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. | 18 | $18,861 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 6 | $9,273 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 8 | $5,110 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $4,075 |
| Acumed LLC | 3 | $1,276 |
| Synthes GmbH | 2 | $1,000 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $816 |
| Biomimetic Innovations Limited | 1 | $500 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 4 | $299 |
| US Implant Solutions, LLC | 1 | $189 |
| Stryker | 3 | $166 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 5 | $134 |
| Terumo BCT, Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $89 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $89 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $51 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $43 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $23 |
How this compares
$1,668,299 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 455 orthopaedic surgery providers in Missouri.
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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Saint Louis
- Jay KeenerSaint Louis$2.2M
- Peter ChalmersSaint Louis$674K
- Lionel MetzSaint Louis$428K
- Jeffrey WhitingSaint Louis$387K
- Jon CarlsonSaint Louis$384K
- Benjamin ZmistowskiSaint Louis$347K
- Alexander AleemSaint Louis$314K
- Rhoderic MirkinSaint Louis$209K
- Sridhar PinnamaneniSaint Louis$188K
- Michael ChabotSaint Louis$131K
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.