Tamara Huff, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Columbus, GANPI 1932336997
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $142,008 of the $158,160 with a category attached, or 89.8%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 98.5% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in GA 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.
Across 321 payments — averaging $492.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$156K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$829
- Johnson & Johnson$749
- Stryker$722
- Bioventus LLC$27
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$22
- plus $89 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$142,00890%
- Travel & lodging$11,5897%
- Food & beverage$4,4293%
- Education$630%
- Gifts$710%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 290 | $155,722 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 15 | $829 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $749 |
| Stryker | 6 | $722 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $22 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $21 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $20 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $15 |
| ERMI 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.
- Hips-None$57,274
- Absolute Bi-Polar Shoulder$17,750
- Surgical Product Portfolio$3,164
- Minority Initiatives-None$829
- MAKO$617
- CORAIL$442
- ORTHOPEDIC CABLE / PERIPROSTHETIC SYSTEM$427
- TFN ADVANCED$427
- Persona$416
- Surgical-None$353
- ATTUNE$308
- Persona Revision$267
How this compares
$158,160 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 654 orthopaedic surgery providers in Georgia.
Medicare billing
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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Columbus
- John DorchakColumbus$3.8M
- John BurkusColumbus$599K
- Charles DecookCumming$48.3M
- Ormonde MahoneyAthens$10.6M
- Daxes BanitWarner Robins$5.5M
- Daniel SilcoxAtlanta$3.4M
- Dennis DevitoAtlanta$1.5M
- Jon MinterAlpharetta$1.2M
- George GuildCumming$987K
- William TallyAthens$870K
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.