Walter McClelland, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Atlanta, GANPI 1790962488
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $67,200 of the $106,031 with a category attached, or 63.4%. Encore Medical, LP accounts for 76.2% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $44,422, more than ten times the $1,641 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in GA 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.
Across 95 payments — averaging $1116.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Encore Medical, LP$81K
- Arthrex$22K
- Stryker$2K
- Microaire Surgical Instruments LLC$2K
- Axogen$25
- United Orthopedics LLC$14
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$67,20063%
- Speaking & faculty fees$24,40023%
- Travel & lodging$11,40911%
- Food & beverage$3,0213%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Encore Medical, LP | 53 | $80,773 |
| Arthrex | 20 | $21,862 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 18 | $1,757 |
| Microaire Surgical Instruments LLC | 1 | $1,600 |
| Axogen | 2 | $25 |
| United Orthopedics LLC | 1 | $14 |
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
$106,031 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 121 | $518 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 109 | $437 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 60 | $374 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 45 | $280 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 25 | $177 |
| Ibuprofen | 21 | $146 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 43 | $97 |
| Methylprednisolone | 14 | $62 |
| Prednisone | 11 | $24 |
| Amoxicillin | 19 | $16 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Atlanta
- Daniel SilcoxAtlanta$3.4M
- Dennis DevitoAtlanta$1.5M
- Erroll BaileyAtlanta$536K
- Hardeep SinghAtlanta$451K
- Jorge FabregasAtlanta$421K
- Ezequiel CassinelliAtlanta$225K
- Timothy OswaldAtlanta$220K
- Michael SchmitzAtlanta$162K
- Samuel WillimonAtlanta$109K
- Fred FinneyAtlanta$75K
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.