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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,148 in general payments to Richard Burris, MD across 48 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 Burris, 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 Burris, 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 Burris, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Marietta, GANPI 1548420359

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,148in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 48 payments — averaging $65.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$2K
Stryker$401
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$295
Johnson & Johnson$49
ERMI LLC$44
Amgen$16
plus $13 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$752%
Travel & lodging$1,51348%
Food & beverage$1,41045%
Education$1505%

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	22	$2,330
Stryker	6	$401
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	14	$295
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$49
ERMI LLC	2	$44
Amgen	1	$16
Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$13

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

$3,148 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 654 orthopaedic surgery providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$302,164

Medicare patients

560

Services billed

12,545

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	72	$877
Celecoxib	15	$437
Diclofenac Sodium	48	$418
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	44	$312
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	28	$260
Meloxicam	140	$257
Ondansetron Hcl	35	$226
Methylprednisolone	34	$203
Tramadol Hcl	68	$147
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	20	$140
Ibuprofen	15	$105
Cephalexin	15	$104
Gabapentin	11	$74
Methocarbamol	16	$63
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	13	$30

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Marietta

Dominic CarreiraMarietta$556K
Bennett GrimmMarietta$469K
Stanley DysartMarietta$86K
Jennifer BruggersMarietta$73K
Steven KaneMarietta$69K
Charles DecookCumming$48.3M
Ormonde MahoneyAthens$10.8M
Daxes BanitWarner Robins$5.7M
John DorchakColumbus$3.8M
Daniel SilcoxAtlanta$3.4M

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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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