Marcis Craig, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Elizabethtown, KYNPI 1821080441
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 71 payments — averaging $19.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$301
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$299
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$176
- Vertex$79
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$65
- Johnson & Johnson$65
- plus $366 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,351100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 7 | $301 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 22 | $299 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 7 | $176 |
| Vertex | 5 | $79 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 6 | $65 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $65 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $63 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $54 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Wound Management Technologies, Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $27 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $26 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $14 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 1 | $14 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$1,351 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 322 orthopaedic surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 514 | $5,480 |
| EliquisApixaban | 26 | $4,736 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 422 | $2,728 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 111 | $1,169 |
| Meloxicam | 338 | $956 |
| Nabumetone | 33 | $345 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 11 | $208 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 75 | $185 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 11 | $148 |
| Cephalexin | 25 | $136 |
| Naproxen | 12 | $54 |
| Methylprednisolone | 14 | $50 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 13 | $35 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 11 | $29 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 12 | $20 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Elizabethtown
- Arthur MalkaniLouisville$9.9M
- Jonathan YerasimidesLouisville$4.3M
- John LewisLouisville$1.6M
- Samer HasanCrestview Hills$1.3M
- Akbar NawabLouisville$1M
- Brent MorrisLexington$901K
- Phillip SingerBowling Green$816K
- Clint HillPaducah$698K
- Paul MatuszewskiLexington$634K
- Joseph GreeneLouisville$584K
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.