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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $902 in general payments to John Young, MD across 16 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 Young, 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 Young, 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 Young, MD

Orthopedic Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1457392045

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 16 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smith+Nephew at 51.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $448 and has fallen 67.1% since, to $147 in 2025.

$902in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $56.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$466
Orthalign Inc$147
Johnson & Johnson$80
Stryker$80
Dynasplint Systems Inc.$47
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$37
plus $45 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$902100%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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	5	$466
Orthalign Inc	1	$147
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	4	$80
Stryker	1	$80
Dynasplint Systems Inc.	1	$47
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	2	$37
Exactech, Inc.	1	$27
Heraeus Medical, LLC.	1	$18

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

Too few orthopedic surgery providers in Alabamato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$206,200

Medicare patients

368

Services billed

9,516

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	442	$2,761
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	348	$2,289
Methylprednisolone	226	$2,143
Meloxicam	217	$850
Diclofenac Sodium	16	$601
Methocarbamol	74	$406
Gabapentin	50	$197
Tramadol Hcl	60	$194
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	27	$83
Tizanidine Hcl	13	$81
Amoxicillin	18	$19

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopedic surgery in Birmingham

Scott GlenzerMobile$14K
John ToddDaphne$5K
Jeffrey CuomoJasper$3K
George CorbettDaphne$3K
Matthew GoldmanDaphne$2K
Colin SwiglerMobile$945
Donald MartinGuntersville$592
Gilbert HollandAndalusia$54
Tai ChungMontgomery$0
Frank FondrenBay Minette$0

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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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