Has Lamar Callaway, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $150,208 in general payments to Lamar Callaway, MD across 86 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 Lamar Callaway, 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 Lamar Callaway, 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.

Lamar Callaway, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Macon, GANPI 1467815332

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by grants: $122,500 of the $150,208 with a category attached, or 81.6%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 50.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $125,452 and has fallen 87.2% since, to $16,010 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in GA 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.

$150,208in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 86 payments — averaging $1746.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$75K
Globus Medical$70K
Synthes GmbH$2K
Stryker$749
Johnson & Johnson$468
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$399
plus $1K from 11 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$17,60012%
Grants$122,50082%
Travel & lodging$6,9245%
Food & beverage$2,7852%
Education$3990%

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
Medtronic	6	$75,273
Globus Medical(2 entities)	39	$70,266
Synthes GmbH	2	$2,013
Stryker	11	$749
Johnson & Johnson	8	$468
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$399
Zimmer Biomet	4	$266
Choice Spine, LLC	1	$134
Aegis Spine, Inc.	1	$124
AbbVie	1	$105
Medacta USA, Inc.	2	$100
Si-bone, Inc.	4	$92
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	1	$91
Smith+Nephew	1	$46
Boston Scientific	1	$37
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$26
Zimvie Inc.	1	$20

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.

Mazor X Stealth Edition$75,126
ELSA$8,633
XLIF$7,193
Pulse$2,625
ALIF$2,600
CREO MIS Stabilization System$1,064
EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$280
SYMPHONY$145
Blackhawk Cervical Spacer System$134
Thunderbolt Minimally Invasive Pedicle Screw Systems$134
VEO Lateral Interbody Fusion System$134
Triton$134
Stratofuse$134
T2$128
AVS NAVIGATOR$117
AXSOS$110
ROSA$109
DALVANCE$105

How this compares

$150,208 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 654 orthopaedic surgery providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$311,010

Medicare patients

345

Services billed

1,823

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	1,079	$7,305
Pregabalin	374	$7,022
Tizanidine Hcl	764	$4,238
Methylprednisolone	367	$2,536
Tramadol Hcl	226	$1,657
Meloxicam	603	$1,630
Lidocaine	11	$1,497
Oxycodone Hcl	143	$1,321
Ondansetron Hcl	144	$1,104
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	50	$837
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	50	$832
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	72	$734
Celecoxib	13	$629
Promethazine Hcl	77	$415
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	46	$328

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Macon

Wayne KelleyMacon$180K
Ryan SchnetzerMacon$104K
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
Jon MinterAlpharetta$1.2M
George GuildCumming$987K

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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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