Junius Clawson, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1427018761
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 31 payments — averaging $139.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$2K
- Centinel Spine, LLC$1K
- Stryker$311
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$294
- Cerapedics Inc.$167
- Zimvie Inc.$148
- plus $518 from 9 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $3900.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Spine Design Associates$4K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,01646%
- Food & beverage$2,32154%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 6 | $1,854 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 4 | $1,046 |
| Stryker | 4 | $311 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $294 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $167 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $122 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $84 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $77 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $71 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $33 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Vertex | 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.
- Sable$1,630
- PRODISC C$582
- PRODISC C VIVO$386
- Mobi-C$270
- coflex$175
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$167
- SERRATO$151
- NIAGARA LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$124
- ALLOGRAFT$119
How this compares
$4,337 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 221 orthopaedic surgery providers in Utah.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 58 | $775 |
| Methylprednisolone | 43 | $391 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 25 | $346 |
| Ibuprofen | 21 | $281 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 24 | $148 |
| Pregabalin | 11 | $144 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 19 | $140 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 27 | $109 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Salt Lake City
- Aaron HofmannSalt Lake City$10.7M
- Jeremy GilillandSalt Lake City$3.3M
- Robert TashjianSalt Lake City$3M
- Jeffrey JacksonSalt Lake City$2.3M
- Brandon LawrenceSalt Lake City$1.9M
- Thomas HigginsSalt Lake City$1.6M
- Christopher MartinSalt Lake City$1.2M
- Christopher PeltSalt Lake City$436K
- Robert BurksSalt Lake City$355K
- Charles SaltzmanSalt Lake City$254K
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.