Has Richard Bowles, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,806 in general payments to Richard Bowles, MD across 51 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 Richard Bowles, 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 Richard Bowles, 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.

Richard Bowles, MD

Sports Medicine · Watertown, NYNPI 1881957835

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,806in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 51 payments — averaging $113.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$3K
Stryker$2K
United Orthopedics LLC$549
Johnson & Johnson$137
GSK$83
Avanos Medical$47
plus $22 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$4,13171%
Food & beverage$1,67529%

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
Smith+Nephew	18	$3,231
Stryker	23	$1,738
United Orthopedics LLC	1	$549
Johnson & Johnson	3	$137
GSK	4	$83
Avanos Medical	1	$47
AbbVie	1	$22

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

$5,806 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 403 sports medicine providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$123,009

Medicare patients

307

Services billed

1,299

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	466	$7,525
Diclofenac Sodium	86	$2,321
Oxycodone Hcl	99	$478
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	53	$453
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	71	$415
Ibuprofen	37	$242
Ondansetron Hcl	24	$231
Cefadroxil	14	$184
Ketorolac Tromethamine	17	$179
Meloxicam	72	$163
Methylprednisolone	22	$119
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	17	$112
Tramadol Hcl	15	$37

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other sports medicine in Watertown

Steven LeeNyc$3.3M
Riley WilliamsNew York$3.1M
Gregory DifeliceNew York$3.1M
James PaciWoodbury$2.2M
Ilya VoloshinRochester$965K
Theodore BlaineNew York$845K
Robert MeislinNew York$720K
Stephen NicholasNyc$637K
Danyal NawabiNew York$609K
Tally LassiterOneonta$460K

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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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