Orvis Chitwood, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Dothan, ALNPI 1275534661
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,509 of the $2,430 with a category attached, or 62.1%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Prime Surgical, LLC at 35.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $866 and has fallen 55.5% since, to $385 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in AL, where the typical reported total is $2,073.
Across 25 payments — averaging $97.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Prime Surgical, LLC$870
- Stryker$753
- Smith+Nephew$507
- Johnson & Johnson$91
- Bioventus LLC$76
- Amgen$64
- plus $69 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,50962%
- Food & beverage$92138%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 3 | $870 |
| Stryker | 2 | $753 |
| Smith+Nephew | 9 | $507 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $91 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $76 |
| Amgen | 4 | $64 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $50 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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
$2,430 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 319 orthopaedic surgery providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 438 | $3,651 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 66 | $653 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 50 | $539 |
| Methylprednisolone | 59 | $522 |
| CeftriaxoneCeftriaxone Sodium | 11 | $296 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 15 | $170 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 46 | $126 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 16 | $101 |
| Meloxicam | 50 | $100 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Dothan
- Jeffrey DugasBirmingham$11.5M
- Benton EmblomBirmingham$3M
- Herrick SiegelBirmingham$1.2M
- Paul CanaleDaphne$609K
- Kenneth MooreBirmingham$342K
- Joseph SherrillBirmingham$221K
- Jonathan QuadeBirmingham$217K
- Lawrence LemakVestavia$216K
- Ginger BryantBirmingham$209K
- Marcus RothermichBirmingham$207K
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.