Major Burch, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Dawsonville, GANPI 1679923528
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (51.2%), food and beverage and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 37 manufacturers reported payments, led by Amplify Surgical, Inc. at 28.5% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $29,034, more than ten times the $1,556 reported in 2019. 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.
Across 179 payments — averaging $320.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amplify Surgical, Inc.$16K
- Spineart USA Inc$12K
- Arthrex$8K
- Elliquence, LLC$5K
- Carlsmed, Inc.$2K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- plus $12K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,00010%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,25011%
- Grants$3781%
- Travel & lodging$29,42051%
- Food & beverage$13,60224%
- Education$1,7823%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amplify Surgical, Inc. | 8 | $16,356 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 45 | $12,459 |
| Arthrex | 11 | $7,520 |
| Elliquence, LLC | 2 | $5,000 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 8 | $2,182 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 2 | $2,071 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 7 | $1,943 |
| Stryker | 7 | $1,305 |
| United Orthopedics LLC | 7 | $1,143 |
| Spineology Inc. | 8 | $863 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 1 | $780 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $716 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 8 | $547 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 6 | $526 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 2 | $501 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 6 | $425 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $386 |
| 4web, Inc. | 3 | $364 |
| Globus Medical | 5 | $337 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $208 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 2 | $195 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 2 | $194 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $183 |
| Curvafix, Inc. | 1 | $180 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $175 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $127 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $121 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 3 | $95 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $89 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $85 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 3 | $77 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $57 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Vertex | 1 | $32 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 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.
- PERLA C$3,798
- Trigger-Flex$3,000
- Perla TL$2,875
- aprevo$2,064
- Other - Miscellaneous$1,396
- AVATAR MINIMALLY INVASIVE SPINAL SYSTEM$1,003
- CENTRIC - T RETRACTOR$833
- ProLift$833
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$794
- ARx$652
- Pro-Link Ti$652
- Cervical Plage$652
- Xvision$555
- SIMpact$393
- NONE$378
- TRITANIUM$346
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$309
- ProLift Micro$304
- SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$288
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$183
How this compares
$57,432 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 59 | $804 |
| Gabapentin | 167 | $747 |
| Methocarbamol | 35 | $238 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 20 | $186 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 34 | $92 |
| Meloxicam | 29 | $56 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Dawsonville
- 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
- 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.