Has Joshua Bell, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,450 in general payments to Joshua Bell, MD across 52 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 Joshua Bell, 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 Joshua Bell, 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.

Joshua Bell, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Newnan, GANPI 1821402819

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,450in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 52 payments — averaging $66.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$2K
Stryker$1K
Johnson & Johnson$167
Polynovo North America LLC$155
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$47
Viiv Healthcare Company$22
plus $19 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,10532%
Food & beverage$1,96457%
Education$38111%

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
Zimmer Biomet	18	$1,576
Stryker	23	$1,464
Johnson & Johnson	4	$167
Polynovo North America LLC	3	$155
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$47
Viiv Healthcare Company	1	$22
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$19

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

$3,450 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 654 orthopaedic surgery providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$272,016

Medicare patients

531

Services billed

6,070

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
Meloxicam	231	$1,017
Oxycodone Hcl	256	$940
Diclofenac Sodium	57	$727
Celecoxib	33	$456
Methylprednisolone	55	$298
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	15	$151
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	19	$148
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	28	$128
Tizanidine Hcl	23	$57
Tramadol Hcl	16	$37
Amoxicillin	22	$21
Clindamycin Hcl	12	$13

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Newnan

Charles DecookCumming$48.3M
Ormonde MahoneyAthens$10.8M
Daxes BanitWarner Robins$5.7M
John DorchakColumbus$3.8M
Daniel SilcoxAtlanta$3.4M
Dennis DevitoAtlanta$1.5M
George GuildCumming$1.4M
Jon MinterAlpharetta$1.4M
Tuan BuiLawrenceville$1.1M
William TallyAthens$870K

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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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