Kenneth Kress, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Alpharetta, GANPI 1174510598
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $25,500 of the $32,136 with a category attached, or 79.4%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 84.2% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $10,051 and has fallen 94.4% since, to $558 in 2024.
Across 75 payments — averaging $428.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$27K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$861
- Medacta USA, Inc.$772
- Smith+Nephew$542
- Linkbio Corp$341
- plus $1K from 12 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $8062.50 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.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$8K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$25,50079%
- Travel & lodging$1,9296%
- Food & beverage$4,70715%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 20 | $27,057 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 18 | $1,460 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 9 | $861 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 7 | $772 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $542 |
| Linkbio Corp | 2 | $341 |
| Think Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $275 |
| Abbott | 1 | $164 |
| Next Science LLC | 2 | $162 |
| BD | 1 | $158 |
| Stryker | 1 | $128 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $91 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $12 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $11 |
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.
- ATTUNE$27,271
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$542
- GMK SPHERE$520
- Journey II$407
- TMINI Miniature Robotic System$275
- AMISTEM$231
- PROCLAIM$164
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$158
- mymobility Platform$150
- GMK Sphere Revision System$145
- Connected Health-MyMobility$142
- Journey II XR$138
- MAKO$128
- Persona$118
- Velys$105
- SurgX$105
- Xperience$105
How this compares
$32,136 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 654 orthopaedic surgery providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pregabalin | 184 | $1,221 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 216 | $633 |
| Amoxicillin | 488 | $627 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 37 | $364 |
| Ibuprofen | 47 | $281 |
| Gabapentin | 41 | $236 |
| Cefdinir | 23 | $230 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 87 | $221 |
| Methylprednisolone | 31 | $185 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 30 | $107 |
| Meloxicam | 24 | $91 |
| Dexamethasone | 21 | $70 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 23 | $68 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 11 | $49 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Alpharetta
- Jon MinterAlpharetta$1.2M
- Charles DecookCumming$48.3M
- Ormonde MahoneyAthens$10.6M
- Daxes BanitWarner Robins$5.5M
- John DorchakColumbus$3.8M
- Daniel SilcoxAtlanta$3.4M
- Dennis DevitoAtlanta$1.5M
- George GuildCumming$987K
- William TallyAthens$870K
- Julian PriceAthens$805K
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.