Wendell Cole, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Suwanee, GANPI 1154815504
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 107 payments — averaging $475.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$23K
- Smith+Nephew$22K
- Exactech, Inc.$2K
- ALON Medical Technology$1K
- Stryker$1K
- Suvon Surgical LLC$873
- plus $1K from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$27,50054%
- Travel & lodging$8,78817%
- Food & beverage$5,69311%
- Education$8,86017%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 37 | $22,720 |
| Smith+Nephew | 28 | $21,569 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 4 | $2,018 |
| ALON Medical Technology | 1 | $1,200 |
| Stryker | 18 | $1,035 |
| Suvon Surgical LLC | 7 | $873 |
| Vericel Corporation | 3 | $537 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $348 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $272 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $132 |
| Bodycad USA Corp | 1 | $112 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
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.
- Q-FIX$4,671
- ACUFEX Meniscal Root Repair$2,493
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$2,278
- Healicoil$2,228
- CAP-FIX$2,171
- EQUINOXE$2,018
- NOVOSTITCH$1,898
- Mini-Open Latarjet$1,878
- MICRORAPTOR$1,878
- AETOS Shoulder System$1,878
- MACI$537
- AMBIENT$273
- Coblation$273
- Accu-pass$273
- AXSOS$175
- ALPHAVENT$162
- ARTHREX$142
- TFN-Advance$139
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$138
- O-ARM$136
How this compares
$50,841 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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Suwanee
- Charles DecookCumming$48.3M
- Ormonde MahoneyAthens$10.8M
- Daxes BanitWarner Robins$5.7M
- John DorchakColumbus$3.8M
- Daniel SilcoxAtlanta$3.4M
- Dennis DevitoAtlanta$1.5M
- George GuildCumming$1.4M
- Jon MinterAlpharetta$1.4M
- Tuan BuiLawrenceville$1.1M
- 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.