RxDoctor Payments Data

Barry Sharpe, DO

Orthopaedic Surgery · Newark, DENPI 1972965671

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (53.1%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Episurf Medical, Inc. at 38.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $17,007, 7.5 times the $2,281 reported in 2019.

$26,274in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 115 payments — averaging $228.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Episurf Medical, Inc.$10K
  • Arthrex$4K
  • CDC Medical LLC$3K
  • Stryker$3K
  • Synthes USA Products LLC$3K
  • Forma Medical$1K
  • plus $2K from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$13,95253%
  • Travel & lodging$2,78111%
  • Food & beverage$4,95819%
  • Education$4,58317%

General payments by program year

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25

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Episurf Medical, Inc.2$10,175
Arthrex29$3,938
CDC Medical LLC2$3,481
Stryker55$3,176
Synthes USA Products LLC3$2,513
Forma Medical2$1,024
Eclipse Technology Solutions Inc.10$702
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.1$490
Exactech, Inc.2$190
Curonix LLC1$138
Acuitive Technologies, Inc1$114
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)3$104
Medshape, Inc.1$75
Smith+Nephew1$74
Zimmer Biomet1$59
Vertex1$20

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

$26,274 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 70 orthopaedic surgery providers in Delaware.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$172,948
Medicare patients
331
Services billed
1,735

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Gabapentin58$308
Oxycodone Hcl65$248
Celecoxib13$244
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron36$241
Methylprednisolone39$225
Meloxicam41$181
Ketorolac Tromethamine23$180
Tramadol Hcl12$25

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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