Has Jonathon Whitehead received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,534 in general payments to Jonathon Whitehead across 74 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 Jonathon Whitehead 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 Jonathon Whitehead 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.

Jonathon Whitehead

Hand Surgery · Hoover, ALNPI 1053970228

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,753 of the $6,534 with a category attached, or 72.7%. It is spread thinly across 25 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.8%. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,012, 6.4 times the $315 reported in 2019.

$6,534in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 74 payments — averaging $88.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$1K
Smith+Nephew$983
Zimmer Biomet$629
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$500
Stryker$430
Johnson & Johnson$360
plus $2K from 19 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,78127%
Food & beverage$4,75373%

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
Arthrex	11	$1,488
Smith+Nephew	13	$983
Zimmer Biomet	6	$629
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$500
Stryker	6	$430
Johnson & Johnson	6	$360
Next Science LLC	2	$230
Heraeus Medical, LLC.	2	$174
Prime Surgical, LLC	4	$166
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc	1	$164
Kerecis Limited	2	$160
Skeletal Dynamics Inc	2	$158
Illuminoss Medical, Inc.	3	$151
Endo USA, Inc.	1	$137
Bone Support Inc.	1	$136
KCI USA, Inc.	3	$132
Trimed, Inc.	1	$123
Vericel Corporation	1	$117
Spine Wave, Inc.	1	$89
ERMI LLC	1	$88
Team 1, LLC	2	$52
Bioventus LLC	1	$24
Abbott	1	$16
Solventum Corporation	1	$15
Baxter Healthcare	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.

How this compares

$6,534 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 29 hand surgery providers in Alabama.

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Other hand surgery in Hoover

Michael SmithHoover$3K
Kathleen McKeonBirmingham$151K
Hussein TurkiMontgomery$35K
Christopher BeaumontBirmingham$18K
Karlee LoftinBirmingham$12K
Thomas SellersMontgomery$10K
Jared BurkettMobile$8K
Allison HunterDaphne$8K
Charles Rodriguez-FeoMobile$7K
Edmund RowlandMobile$5K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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