Has Ki Hon Lin, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $166,199 in general payments to Ki Hon Lin, MD across 362 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 Ki Hon Lin, 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 Ki Hon Lin, 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.

Ki Hon Lin, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Carrollton, GANPI 1851394837

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $119,380 of the $166,199 with a category attached, or 71.8%. Royal Biologics, Inc. accounts for 83.0% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $42,106, 7.1 times the $5,952 reported in 2019.

$166,199in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 362 payments — averaging $459.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Royal Biologics, Inc.$138K
4web, Inc.$20K
Stryker$3K
Globus Medical$2K
Medtronic$2K
VB Spine LLC$167
plus $760 from 15 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$119,38072%
Consulting fees$24,02814%
Speaking & faculty fees$5000%
Travel & lodging$8,1735%
Food & beverage$13,9818%
Education$1370%

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
Royal Biologics, Inc.	37	$137,880
4web, Inc.	206	$20,092
Stryker	21	$2,794
Globus Medical	56	$2,359
Medtronic(2 entities)	17	$2,148
VB Spine LLC	5	$167
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$137
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$100
Spineology Inc.	3	$79
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	1	$79
Si-bone, Inc.	4	$73
Intrinsic Therapeutics	1	$61
Vertos Medical, Inc.	1	$45
Cerapedics Inc.	1	$36
Titan Spine, LLC	1	$35
Johnson & Johnson	1	$29
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$24
Spineart USA Inc	1	$23
Amgen	1	$18
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$14
Medical Investment Advisors LLC	1	$7

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

$166,199 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 57 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$177,096

Medicare patients

400

Services billed

9,497

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	539	$4,809
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	477	$3,081
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	370	$2,880
Fentanyl	13	$2,592
Tramadol Hcl	671	$2,149
Diclofenac Sodium	73	$1,170
Pregabalin	59	$656
Celecoxib	39	$641
Prednisone	389	$565
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	92	$512
Tizanidine Hcl	68	$510
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	18	$472
Methocarbamol	70	$375
Baclofen	43	$358
Meloxicam	133	$342

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Carrollton

John HellerAtlanta$4.2M
Scott BodenAtlanta$1.5M
Justin BundyAugusta$1.4M
John RheeAtlanta$1.1M
Tapan DaftariAustell$759K
Brad PrybisStockbridge$659K
Paul JeffordsAtlanta$651K
Raphael RoybalSavannah$400K
Hewatt SimsDouglas$376K
James MalcolmMarietta$295K

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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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