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

Kevin Pugh

Orthopaedic Surgery Pikeville, KY Medical Doctor

NPI 1477596302 CMS profile 111896

911 Bypass Rd Bldg A, Pikeville, KY 41501

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General payments

$71,606

135 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

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

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Kevin Pugh of Pikeville, KY is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $71,606 across 135 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

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.

General payments for this record sit in the 91st percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $9,207 14
2024 General $19,299 14
2023 General $13,850 29
2022 General $16,030 26
2021 General $7,888 23
2020 General $4,258 8
2019 General $1,074 21

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Kevin Pugh were reported at $9,207. 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 Kevin Pugh Orthopaedic Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $1,074 $644 $140–$2,844 $163
2020 $4,258 $312 $75–$1,860 $114
2021 $7,888 $520 $117–$2,495 $132
2022 $16,030 $598 $128–$2,731 $149
2023 $13,850 $461 $128–$2,264 $160
2024 $19,299 $497 $134–$2,475 $164
2025 $9,207 $563 $147–$2,717 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Encore Medical, LP $43,874 24 payments
  2. Smith+Nephew, Inc. $14,832 32 payments
  3. Uoc USA Inc $8,623 8 payments
  4. Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $2,630 13 payments
  5. Heraeus Medical, LLC. $310 3 payments
  6. Integra LifeSciences Corporation $113 5 payments
  7. DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $109 1 payment
  8. Stryker Corporation $98 2 payments
  9. Covidien LP $91 2 payments
  10. Medtronic, Inc. $90 4 payments
  11. Other $838 41 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $37,768 26 payments
  2. Royalty or License $27,384 11 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $3,032 91 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 $2,000 1 payment
  5. Travel and Lodging $1,374 4 payments
  6. Education $28 1 payment
  7. Long term medical supply or device loan $20 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. DJO SURGICAL Joint Implants $39,309 19 payments
  2. DJO SURGICAL Joint Implants $27,384 11 payments
  3. DJO SURGICAL Joint Implants $27,384 11 payments
  4. DJO SURGICAL Joint Implants $27,384 11 payments
  5. JOURNEY II $10,190 8 payments
  6. Medial Pivot $5,483 1 payment
  7. LEGION TKS $4,520 1 payment
  8. LEGION $3,332 5 payments
  9. DJO SURGICAL Joint Implant $2,700 2 payments
  10. Walter $2,125 2 payments
  11. Other $15,239 142 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 · 11 drugs

Part D claims

1,417

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$116,270

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

64.7%

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
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 295 $106,486
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 476 $3,296
Lidocaine-Prilocaine Lidocaine/Prilocaine Brand 21 $3,054
Cephalexin Generic 349 $2,164
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 80 $639
Doxycycline Monohydrate Generic 11 $212
Nitrofurantoin Mono-Macro Nitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst Brand 16 $160
Amoxicillin Generic 107 $90
Clindamycin Hcl Generic 20 $70
Sulfamethoxazole-Trimethoprim Sulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim Brand 29 $65

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 11 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 · 36 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$261,752

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

632

Average age 72

Services billed

1,984

386 women, 246 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 38%
Ischemic heart disease 28%
COPD 28%
Depression 28%
Chronic kidney disease 22%
Atrial fibrillation 17%

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.

Payments and prescribing

2 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
Zilretta
  • Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $7
$7 — —
Exparel
  • Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $7
$7 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

Records

135 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

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

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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