Has Uzondu Agochukwu, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $193,903 in general payments to Uzondu Agochukwu, MD across 305 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 Uzondu Agochukwu, 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 Uzondu Agochukwu, 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.

Uzondu Agochukwu, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Augusta, GANPI 1548455124

Payments from drug & device makers

$193,903in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 305 payments — averaging $635.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$77K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$50K
Synthes GmbH$38K
Ulrich Medical USA, Inc.$8K
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.$6K
Spinal Elements, Inc.$2K
plus $13K from 42 others

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
Globus Medical(2 entities)	65	$76,860
Alphatec Spine, Inc	42	$49,602
Synthes GmbH	49	$37,617
Ulrich Medical USA, Inc.	3	$7,986
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	4	$6,119
Spinal Elements, Inc.	16	$2,221
Corelink, LLC	3	$1,896
Smith+Nephew	18	$1,789
Johnson & Johnson	20	$1,457
Medtronic(2 entities)	11	$1,313
Stryker	7	$747
Intrinsic Therapeutics	5	$737
Abbott	8	$735
Cerapedics Inc.	4	$504
Si-bone, Inc.	5	$457
Team 1, LLC	3	$347
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc	2	$303
Circinus Medical Technology LLC	1	$256
4web, Inc.	2	$255
Spine Wave, Inc.	2	$223
Nevro Corp.	2	$174
Bone Support Inc.	1	$136
Xtant Medical Inc	1	$130
Solventum Corporation	1	$128
My01 Inc.	1	$125
Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus	1	$125
Aegis Spine, Inc.	1	$124
Zimmer Biomet	1	$122
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$120
Vertex	1	$120
Boston Scientific	3	$110
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	1	$108
Bioventus LLC	1	$108
AbbVie	1	$105
Medacta USA, Inc.	2	$100
Intuitive Surgical	1	$99
Carlsmed, Inc.	1	$80
Heraeus Medical, LLC.	1	$78
Moximed, Inc	1	$73
Polarityte, Inc.	2	$71
Arthrosurface Incorporated	2	$67
Baxter Healthcare	2	$45
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	1	$35
Elevation Spine, Inc.	1	$28
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$23
Convatec Inc.	1	$18
Amgen	1	$13
Avanos Medical	1	$13

How this compares

$193,903 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 654 orthopaedic surgery providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$74,602

Medicare patients

Services billed

286

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 Augusta

Stephen ParadaAugusta$699K
Lynn CrosbyAugusta$536K
John DevineAugusta$331K
Nathan KukowskiAugusta$108K
John MartellAugusta$91K
Nicholas CapitoAugusta$83K
Charles DecookCumming$48.3M
Ormonde MahoneyAthens$10.8M
Daxes BanitWarner Robins$5.7M
John DorchakColumbus$3.8M

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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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