Has Justin Givens, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $56,778 in general payments to Justin Givens, MD across 225 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 Justin Givens, 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 Justin Givens, 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.

Justin Givens, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Louisville, KYNPI 1861924524

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $36,188 of the $56,778 with a category attached, or 63.7%. Stryker accounts for 96.5% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $34,375, more than ten times the $148 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in KY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$56,778in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 225 payments — averaging $252.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$55K
Linvatec Corporation$451
Zimmer Biomet$369
Alpha Orthopedic Systems$185
Johnson & Johnson$178
Smith+Nephew$168
plus $609 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$36,18864%
Travel & lodging$10,06518%
Food & beverage$10,52619%

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	194	$54,818
Linvatec Corporation	3	$451
Zimmer Biomet	4	$369
Alpha Orthopedic Systems	6	$185
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	3	$178
Smith+Nephew	2	$168
Catalyst Orthoscience	1	$164
Si-bone, Inc.	5	$135
Coastal Medical Technologies LLC	1	$121
Baxter Healthcare	1	$109
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$20
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$17
Bioventus LLC	1	$16
Acacia Pharma Inc	1	$14
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$14

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.

BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$23,787
AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$10,487
MAKO$8,136
REUNION$6,732
AEQUALIS$5,250
AEQUALIS PERFORM$4,715
VARIAX$4,246
AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$1,838
TORNIER PERFORM ANATOMIC AUGMENTED GLENOID$1,688
AEQUALIS FLEX REVIVE$1,688
ALPHAVENT$1,313
PROCINCH$1,233
SIMPLICITI$938
ICONIX$432
LINVATEC SHOULDER ARTHROSCOPY$415
AIR$245
COBRA$171
Catalyst CSR Shoulder System$164
AXSOS$163
TORNIER PERFORM REVERSED GLENOID$156

How this compares

$56,778 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 322 orthopaedic surgery providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$145,026

Medicare patients

233

Services billed

1,122

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	181	$1,325
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	53	$484
Ondansetron Hcl	66	$362
Meloxicam	152	$321
Gabapentin	17	$140
Mupirocin	22	$108
Tramadol Hcl	17	$66
Methylprednisolone	16	$61

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Jonathan YerasimidesLouisville$4.3M
John LewisLouisville$1.5M
Akbar NawabLouisville$1M
Joseph GreeneLouisville$581K
George QuillLouisville$304K
Rodolfo Zamora RendichLouisville$292K
Richard SweetLouisville$238K
Frank BonnarensLouisville$146K
Ryan EadsLouisville$99K

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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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