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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $209,724 in general payments to Robert Jones, MD across 205 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 Jones, 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 Jones, 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 Jones, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Ozark, MONPI 1093957565

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $190,988 of the $209,724 with a category attached, or 91.1%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 91.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$209,724in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 205 payments — averaging $1023.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$191K
Johnson & Johnson$18K
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$335
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$238
Stryker$75
Zimmer Biomet$47
plus $51 from 3 others

$131,397in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 118 payments — averaging $1113.54 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$131K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$190,98891%
Travel & lodging$12,5626%
Food & beverage$6,1743%

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
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	157	$190,777
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	38	$18,202
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	1	$335
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	3	$238
Stryker	2	$75
Zimmer Biomet	1	$47
Solventum Corporation	1	$22
Smith+Nephew	1	$16
Heraeus Medical, LLC.	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.

ATTUNE$192,399
EXPEDIUM$137,122
Pinnacle Gription TF$137,122
LCP$137,122
ACTIS$31,987
CORAIL$28,494
LPS$16,410
S-ROM NOILES$16,410
VISTASEAL$6,306
ETHICON$5,138
Velys$1,907
JOINTPOINT$131
EXPAREL$123
EMPHASYS$118
PINNACLE$117

How this compares

$209,724 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 455 orthopaedic surgery providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$457,503

Medicare patients

857

Services billed

2,348

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
EliquisApixaban	32	$14,150
Oxycodone Hcl	953	$6,174
Tranexamic Acid	281	$4,350
Tramadol Hcl	963	$2,388
Celecoxib	188	$2,206
Famotidine	290	$1,329
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	85	$860
Ondansetron Hcl	36	$346
Cephalexin	224	$319
Duloxetine Hcl	40	$222
Tizanidine Hcl	41	$176
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	13	$150
Hydromorphone Hcl	24	$138
Methylprednisolone	18	$106
Baclofen	20	$79

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Ozark

Megan MantheOzark$45K
Matthew SmithColumbia$2.9M
Jay KeenerSaint Louis$2.2M
John WatsonSaint Louis$1.7M
Peter ChalmersSaint Louis$603K
Katherine BurnsBridgeton$491K
Jeremy StattonLees Summit$457K
Lionel MetzSaint Louis$428K
Michael HellmanLees Summit$365K
Jon CarlsonSaint Louis$354K

See the full list for Missouri →

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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