Has Rowland Roberson, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $42,766 in general payments to Rowland Roberson, MD across 83 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 Rowland Roberson, 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 Rowland Roberson, 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.

Rowland Roberson, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Tupelo, MSNPI 1619139474

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (53.2%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Smith+Nephew accounts for 98.9% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $13,530 and has fallen 99.7% since, to $43 in 2025.

$42,766in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 83 payments — averaging $515.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$42K
Si-bone, Inc.$63
Boston Scientific$45
Orthalign Inc$45
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$44
Amgen$42
plus $218 from 10 others

$10,000in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $10,000 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.

Smith+Nephew$10K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$12,06328%
Speaking & faculty fees$22,75053%
Travel & lodging$6,59315%
Food & beverage$1,3603%

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	60	$42,308
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$63
Boston Scientific	2	$45
Orthalign Inc	1	$45
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$44
Amgen	3	$42
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$33
Medtronic	2	$29
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	1	$25
Bioventus LLC	1	$23
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$23
AbbVie	1	$20
Convatec Inc.	1	$18
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$18
Davol Inc.	1	$18
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.	1	$12

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

$42,766 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 170 orthopaedic surgery providers in Mississippi.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$728,702

Medicare patients

988

Services billed

5,710

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
Ibuprofen	436	$2,684
Oxycodone Hcl	342	$1,783
Celecoxib	116	$1,430
Omeprazole	268	$989
Prednisone	375	$857
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	85	$749
Tramadol Hcl	120	$263
Gabapentin	36	$234
Diclofenac Sodium	22	$213
Naproxen	26	$138
Methylprednisolone	20	$128
Meloxicam	28	$127
Ondansetron Hcl	26	$101
Amoxicillin	18	$9

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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George van OstenTupelo$322K
Stephen SouthworthTupelo$160K
William StewardTupelo$55K
Jeb WilliamsTupelo$18K
Jacob SmitheyTupelo$17K
Mary GibsonTupelo$10K
Bryan FaganTupelo$8K
Matthew GravesJackson$1.2M
Edward HobgoodJackson$267K
Hanna MitiasNew Albany$249K

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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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