RxDoctor Payments Data

Steven Kane, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Marietta, GANPI 1831147123

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,720 of the $2,094 with a category attached, or 82.1%. It is spread thinly across 18 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $691 and has fallen 82.7% since, to $120 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in GA, where the typical reported total is $3,375.

$2,094in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $65.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Smith+Nephew$445
  • Johnson & Johnson$339
  • Zimmer Biomet$331
  • Stryker$134
  • Paragon 28, Inc.$120
  • Lifenet Health$120
  • plus $605 from 12 others
$67,357in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $9622.38 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

  • 4web, Inc.$67K

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,72082%
  • Education$37418%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$2,094 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 654 orthopaedic surgery providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$19,860
Medicare patients
73
Services billed
263

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen30$143
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen15$122
Gabapentin11$65
Meloxicam50$59
Tramadol Hcl23$37

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Marietta

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Where these figures come from

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