Joseph Ferguson, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Washington, DCNPI 1700229861
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (48.2%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 27.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $34,121, 6.9 times the $4,921 reported in 2019.
Across 248 payments — averaging $337.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$23K
- VB Spine LLC$23K
- Innovasis Inc$21K
- Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$9K
- Globus Medical$7K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$157
- plus $819 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$3,0574%
- Consulting fees$40,37548%
- Travel & lodging$26,98032%
- Food & beverage$13,37416%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 106 | $23,308 |
| VB Spine LLC | 30 | $22,691 |
| Innovasis Inc | 24 | $21,411 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 17 | $8,723 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 57 | $6,677 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $157 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $147 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $122 |
| Abbott | 1 | $103 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $83 |
| Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC | 1 | $48 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $34 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $21 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Theragen, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$20,452
- MagnetOs$7,245
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$6,125
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$5,786
- XLIF$3,924
- NILE ALTERNATIVE FIXATION SYSTEM$2,636
- ASCENTIAL ACP 1$1,500
- TRITANIUM$1,157
- SERRATO$963
- ESCALATE$693
- AERO$540
- ES2$540
- N/A$434
- RELINE$423
- Excelsius - GPS$378
- Intracept$313
- ALIF$277
- CASCADIA$239
- TLIF$198
- CoRoent$180
How this compares
$83,786 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 46 orthopaedic surgery providers in District of Columbia.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 30 | $201 |
| Gabapentin | 20 | $191 |
| Methylprednisolone | 20 | $134 |
| Celecoxib | 14 | $133 |
| Meloxicam | 50 | $122 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 12 | $78 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Washington
- Akhil KhannaWashington$2.1M
- Seyed KalantarWashington$886K
- Scott FaucettWashington$610K
- David LuttonWashington$375K
- Savyasachi ThakkarWashington$216K
- Robert SterlingWashington$38K
- Ryan MurrayWashington$32K
- Robert HenshawWashington$24K
- Sandesh RaoWashington$21K
- James DebritzWashington$14K
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.