Has Michael Kody, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,183 in general payments to Michael Kody, MD across 14 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 Michael Kody, 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 Michael Kody, 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.

Michael Kody, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Spokane, WANPI 1407825599

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,183in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 14 payments — averaging $155.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$1K
Smith+Nephew$254
Tracpatch Health, Inc$250
Sawtooth Surgical Solutions Inc$239
Stryker$151
Vericel Corporation$74
plus $49 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$74534%
Education$1,18754%
Charitable contribution$25011%

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
Arthrex	1	$1,166
Smith+Nephew	4	$254
Tracpatch Health, Inc	1	$250
Sawtooth Surgical Solutions Inc	3	$239
Stryker	2	$151
Vericel Corporation	2	$74
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$49

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

$2,183 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 495 orthopaedic surgery providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$225,263

Medicare patients

264

Services billed

2,927

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	54	$1,619
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	87	$1,062
Oxycodone Hcl	54	$324
Amoxicillin	160	$322
Cephalexin	80	$214
Ondansetron Hcl	62	$149
Hydroxyzine Pamoate	33	$110
Pregabalin	16	$51
Clindamycin Hcl	12	$46
Tamsulosin Hcl	31	$34

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Spokane

Tim LovellSpokane$1.8M
Joshua DrummSpokane$273K
Brett MulawkaSpokane$32K
William BarrettRenton$8.2M
James PritchettSeattle$6.4M
Jeffrey RohSeattle$4.7M
James CrutcherSeattle$3.5M
Keith MayoSeattle$3.1M
Matthew SaltzmanSeattle$1.8M
Timothy AltonRenton$1.8M

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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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