Has Terry Fowler, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $44,365 in general payments to Terry Fowler, MD across 55 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 Terry Fowler, 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 Terry Fowler, 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.

Terry Fowler, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Grove City, OHNPI 1447474705

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $29,855 of the $44,365 with a category attached, or 67.3%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 67.8% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $19,755 and has fallen 88.9% since, to $2,197 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$44,365in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 55 payments — averaging $806.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$30K
Synthes GmbH$13K
Stryker$338
Johnson & Johnson$323
Smith+Nephew$203
Curvafix, Inc.$147
plus $33 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$29,85567%
Speaking & faculty fees$8,75020%
Travel & lodging$4,1649%
Food & beverage$1,5964%

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.	15	$30,067
Synthes GmbH	23	$13,253
Stryker	4	$338
Johnson & Johnson	6	$323
Smith+Nephew	3	$203
Curvafix, Inc.	1	$147
Kls-martin L.p.	2	$17
Invivyd Inc	1	$16

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

$44,365 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 794 orthopaedic surgery providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$200,376

Medicare patients

354

Services billed

1,924

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
Prednisone	122	$452
Meloxicam	26	$67
Tramadol Hcl	12	$66
Amoxicillin	67	$60
Celecoxib	16	$44
Clindamycin Hcl	22	$34

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Grove City

Reuben GobezieCleveland$12M
Gregory BerletWorthington$9.6M
Wael BarsoumCleveland$8.9M
Brian CohenChillicothe$8.8M
Joseph IannottiCleveland$7.1M
John SontichYoungstown$3.6M
Anthony MiniaciCleveland$3.1M
David WelkerMiamisburg$2.8M
Kenneth GreeneCleveland$2.6M
Mark FroimsonCleveland$2.5M

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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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