Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

John Williams

Orthopaedic Surgery Fort Wayne, IN Medical Doctor

NPI 1427059682 CMS profile 110359

5050 N Clinton St, Fort Wayne, IN 46825

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General payments

$2,707,250

639 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$1,264,810

6 holdings reported · through program year 2025

Research they led as principal investigator

$23,396 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2021–2025

Through program year 2025, John Williams of Fort Wayne, IN is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $2,707,250 across 639 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $23,396 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $1,264,810 across 6 holdings.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

13 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $480,514 63
2024 General $242,097 39
2023 General $390,612 74
2022 General $562,438 156
2021 General $421,392 117
2020 General $382,154 97
2019 General $228,043 93
2024 Ownership $170,212 1
2023 Ownership $256,280 1
2022 Ownership $256,280 1
2021 Ownership $256,280 1
2020 Ownership $162,879 1
2019 Ownership $162,879 1

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • John Williams
  • Orthopaedic Surgery median
  • Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to John Williams were reported at $480,514. Among 15,343 Orthopaedic Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $563 and the middle half received between $147 and $2,717.

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Year John Williams Orthopaedic Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $228,043 $644 $140–$2,844 $163
2020 $382,154 $312 $75–$1,860 $114
2021 $421,392 $520 $117–$2,495 $132
2022 $562,438 $598 $128–$2,731 $149
2023 $390,612 $461 $128–$2,264 $160
2024 $242,097 $497 $134–$2,475 $164
2025 $480,514 $563 $147–$2,717 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Stryker Corporation $1,232,092 98 payments
  2. The Institute of Musculoskeletal Science and Education $617,053 49 payments
  3. Camber Spine Technologies $268,402 225 payments
  4. Orthofix Medical, Inc. $175,798 46 payments
  5. VB Spine LLC $108,034 13 payments
  6. Philadelphia Medical Management Company LLC $88,346 5 payments
  7. SpineGuard, Inc. $66,120 28 payments
  8. SurGenTec $53,621 6 payments
  9. Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation $50,580 47 payments
  10. NuVasive, Inc. $19,272 21 payments
  11. Other $27,933 101 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Royalty or License $1,948,719 135 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $662,049 119 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $50,432 144 payments
  4. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $30,247 1 payment
  5. Food and Beverage $15,272 239 payments
  6. Gift $530 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. NIAGARA LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM $490,788 31 payments
  2. CHESAPEAKE STABILIZATION SYSTEM $433,462 11 payments
  3. CHESAPEAKE $311,123 2 payments
  4. Spira $307,319 12 payments
  5. Admiral $91,026 8 payments
  6. Orthros $87,897 5 payments
  7. Alcantara $87,897 5 payments
  8. CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM $81,084 9 payments
  9. Physio-Stim $58,861 8 payments
  10. ION Facet Screw $21,678 2 payments
  11. Other $224,774 214 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 15 drugs

Part D claims

813

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$7,899

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

6.6%

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 11.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Celecoxib Generic 125 $1,629
Gabapentin Generic 140 $1,512
Methocarbamol Generic 86 $1,120
Diclofenac Potassium Generic 68 $935
Mupirocin Generic 120 $701
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 34 $440
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl Generic 34 $414
Tizanidine Hcl Generic 33 $267
Pregabalin Generic 16 $237
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 20 $214

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 15 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 18,934 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 62 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$175,664

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

197

Average age 73

Services billed

1,429

116 women, 81 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 75%
Diabetes 40%
Ischemic heart disease 31%
Depression 25%
Chronic kidney disease 24%
Cancer 20%
Osteoporosis 19%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

639 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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