Aaron Schwartz, MD
Sports Medicine · Portland, ORNPI 1922398973
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $4,962 of the $7,778 with a category attached, or 63.8%. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 35.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,336 and has fallen 68.5% since, to $1,050 in 2025.
Across 58 payments — averaging $134.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$3K
- Steelhead Surgical Inc$3K
- Stryker$1K
- Left Coast Surgical Inc$974
- Smith+Nephew$130
- Johnson & Johnson$58
- plus $29 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,96264%
- Food & beverage$2,81536%
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 | 27 | $2,776 |
| Steelhead Surgical Inc | 10 | $2,576 |
| Stryker | 12 | $1,235 |
| Left Coast Surgical Inc | 5 | $974 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $130 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $58 |
| Vertex | 1 | $29 |
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
$7,778 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 76 sports medicine providers in Oregon.
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 | 44 | $219 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 36 | $215 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 18 | $180 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 11 | $77 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Portland
- Bryce BederkaPortland$105K
- Dennis CrawfordPortland$69K
- Jacqueline BradyPortland$69K
- Jason KurianPortland$39K
- Andrea YoungPortland$9K
- Andrea HerzkaPortland$7K
- Brett AndresPortland$5K
- Lynette MalikPortland$4K
- Paul JohnsonPortland$3K
- David WesterdahlPortland$3K
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.