Adam Wait, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery · Merriam, KSNPI 1447459565
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,794 of the $2,977 with a category attached, or 60.3%. Stryker accounts for 74.8% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,800 and has fallen 87.4% since, to $227 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in KS, where the typical reported total is $3,614.
Across 46 payments — averaging $64.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$180
- Next Science LLC$150
- Zimmer Biomet$118
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$111
- Titan Surgical Group, LLC$40
- plus $153 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,18340%
- Food & beverage$1,79460%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 19 | $2,225 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $180 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $150 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $118 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $111 |
| Titan Surgical Group, LLC | 1 | $40 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $38 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$2,977 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 197 orthopaedic surgery providers in Kansas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 17 | $275 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 30 | $274 |
| Meloxicam | 95 | $217 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 24 | $205 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 31 | $146 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 26 | $47 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Merriam
- David AndersonKansas City$490K
- Brandon CarlsonKansas City$299K
- Jacob DeisterTopeka$185K
- Harold EllsworthLeawood$154K
- Tyler BronWichita$107K
- William ReedLenexa$106K
- Alexander BaileyOverland Park$99K
- Brent WiseKansas City$97K
- Joshua LockerLeawood$91K
- Jeffrey ShepherdWichita$87K
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.