Has Kenny Edwards, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $40,586 in general payments to Kenny Edwards, MD across 87 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 Kenny Edwards, 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 Kenny Edwards, 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.

Kenny Edwards, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Columbus, MSNPI 1659405793

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $25,669 of the $40,586 with a category attached, or 63.2%. Zavation Medical Products, LLC accounts for 95.6% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $19,118, more than ten times the $832 reported in 2019.

$40,586in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 87 payments — averaging $466.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zavation Medical Products, LLC$39K
Corelink, LLC$964
Boston Scientific$411
Globus Medical$190
Medtronic$108
Abbott$47
plus $67 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$25,66963%
Consulting fees$11,25028%
Travel & lodging$9262%
Food & beverage$2,5516%
Gifts$1900%

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
Zavation Medical Products, LLC	33	$38,799
Corelink, LLC	30	$964
Boston Scientific	13	$411
Globus Medical(2 entities)	2	$190
Medtronic	3	$108
Abbott	2	$47
Nevro Corp.	2	$32
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	1	$23
Johnson & Johnson	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.

SIBI System$5,500
ZAVATION$1,500

How this compares

Too few orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Mississippito place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$463,666

Medicare patients

488

Services billed

11,414

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
Celecoxib	115	$2,559
Etodolac	26	$1,926
Baclofen	112	$1,592
Gabapentin	160	$1,346
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	56	$902
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	103	$793
Mupirocin	112	$679
Tramadol Hcl	172	$608
Tizanidine Hcl	55	$483
Oxycodone Hcl	86	$370
Levofloxacin	61	$269
Ibuprofen	18	$186
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	24	$162
Cephalexin	52	$158
Methylprednisolone	24	$140

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Columbus

Justin HallColumbus$52K
Edward SmithMeridian$259K
Graham CalvertJackson$23K
Robert McGuireJackson$7K
David VecchioneTupelo$7K
Dora PelletierJackson$3K
James BarrettJackson$3K
James AntinnesHattiesburg$2K
Kendall BlakeJackson$1K
Michael PattersonHattiesburg$274

See the full list for Mississippi →

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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