Has Andrew Pearle received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,657,480 in general payments to Andrew Pearle across 182 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Andrew Pearle did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Andrew Pearle come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Andrew Pearle

Orthopaedic Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1427071778

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by other: $6,416,002 of the $6,657,480 with a category attached, or 96.4%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 97.6% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $5,792,687 and has fallen 96.5% since, to $200,620 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$6,657,480in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 182 payments — averaging $36,580 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$6.5M
Zimmer Biomet$61K
Exactech, Inc.$45K
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$36K
Stryker$15K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
plus $1K from 4 others

$138,462in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 14 payments — averaging $9890.17 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Stryker$138K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$56,1661%
Consulting fees$133,5992%
Speaking & faculty fees$20,2650%
Travel & lodging$26,9800%
Food & beverage$4,3530%
Gifts$1140%
Other$6,416,00296%

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
Smith+Nephew	64	$6,497,423
Zimmer Biomet	18	$61,003
Exactech, Inc.	30	$44,964
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	49	$36,361
Stryker	6	$14,765
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	6	$1,652
Globus Medical	3	$763
Engage Uni, LLC	3	$349
Orthosensor Inc.	1	$125
Arthrex	2	$75

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

$6,657,480 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,079 orthopaedic surgery providers in New York.

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Other orthopaedic surgery in New York

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Lawrence LenkeNew York$26.8M
Edwin SuNew York$13.2M
William RicciNew York$11.6M
Steven HaasNew York$11.3M
Giles ScuderiNew York$10.7M
Joseph ZuckermanNew York$9.9M
Evan FlatowNew York$9.6M
Bradford ParsonsNew York$9.4M
Geoffrey WestrichNew York$7.1M

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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