Has Robert Ellis, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $17,084 in general payments to Robert Ellis, MD across 53 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 Robert Ellis, 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 Robert Ellis, 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.

Robert Ellis, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Oxford, MSNPI 1316467277

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $13,915 of the $17,084 with a category attached, or 81.5%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 79.0% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $7,418 and has fallen 95.9% since, to $303 in 2025.

$17,084in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 53 payments — averaging $322.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$14K
Zimmer Biomet$1K
Johnson & Johnson$850
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$529
Stryker$346
Nalu Medical, Inc.$112
plus $357 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Grants$3462%
Travel & lodging$3132%
Food & beverage$2,51115%
Education$13,91581%

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	2	$13,500
Zimmer Biomet	17	$1,390
Johnson & Johnson	13	$850
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	4	$529
Stryker	1	$346
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$112
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	1	$84
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	4	$73
Bioventus LLC	2	$40
Gentleman Orthopedic Solutions	1	$37
Vertex	2	$30
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$28
Boston Scientific	1	$23
Mindray DS USA, Inc.	1	$16
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$15
Elite Orthopedics, LLC	1	$11

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

$17,084 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 170 orthopaedic surgery providers in Mississippi.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$303,768

Medicare patients

388

Services billed

6,523

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	207	$2,275
Gabapentin	132	$1,093
Cefadroxil	103	$850
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	138	$750
Methocarbamol	97	$640
Meloxicam	117	$298
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	69	$278
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	40	$276
Methylprednisolone	29	$219
Diclofenac Sodium	28	$205
Tramadol Hcl	56	$127
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	11	$74
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	20	$62
Pantoprazole Sodium	13	$58
Ondansetron Hcl	27	$47

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Oxford

Allen MooreOxford$21K
Matthew GravesJackson$1.2M
George van OstenTupelo$322K
Edward HobgoodJackson$267K
Hanna MitiasNew Albany$249K
Stephen SouthworthTupelo$160K
Jamey BurrowJackson$130K
Jeff AlmandJackson$109K
Spencer MontgomeryJackson$90K
Larry FieldJackson$88K

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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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