Patrick Fernicola, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Columbus, GANPI 1134161995
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 169 payments — averaging $97.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$6K
- CGG Medical Inc$6K
- Arthrosurface Incorporated$1K
- Next Science LLC$812
- Amgen$467
- Smith+Nephew$428
- plus $2K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7505%
- Travel & lodging$7,69147%
- Food & beverage$6,86842%
- Education$1,2007%
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 | 54 | $6,448 |
| CGG Medical Inc | 8 | $5,818 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 5 | $1,020 |
| Next Science LLC | 5 | $812 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 45 | $467 |
| Smith+Nephew | 11 | $428 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $303 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 9 | $220 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $160 |
| Vericel Corporation | 2 | $148 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $126 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 3 | $74 |
| Nanovis LLC | 1 | $72 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $69 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $49 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $47 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $44 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $39 |
| Vertex | 2 | $31 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $9 |
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.
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$2,918
- MAKO$807
- SurgX$750
- Xperience$750
- HemiCAP Shoulder$593
- AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$592
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$410
- HemiCAP MTP Resurfacing$254
- AEQUALIS FLEX REVIVE$172
- TRIATHLON$169
- INSIGNIA$129
- MACI$122
- TORNIER PERFORM REVERSED GLENOID$121
- RIGIDLOOP$111
How this compares
$16,509 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 315 | $1,762 |
| Methylprednisolone | 120 | $631 |
| Mupirocin | 97 | $622 |
| Cefadroxil | 95 | $540 |
| Meloxicam | 149 | $392 |
| Gabapentin | 26 | $381 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 58 | $340 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 110 | $228 |
| Celecoxib | 20 | $194 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 12 | $172 |
| Amoxicillin | 72 | $94 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 13 | $48 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Columbus
- John DorchakColumbus$3.8M
- John BurkusColumbus$600K
- Tamara HuffColumbus$158K
- Charles DecookCumming$48.3M
- Ormonde MahoneyAthens$10.8M
- Daxes BanitWarner Robins$5.7M
- Daniel SilcoxAtlanta$3.4M
- Dennis DevitoAtlanta$1.5M
- George GuildCumming$1.4M
- Jon MinterAlpharetta$1.4M
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.