Bertrand Kaper, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Scottsdale, AZNPI 1164497723
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 495 payments — averaging $1146.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$539K
- Avanos Medical$25K
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$817
- Davol Inc.$147
- Stryker$57
- plus $341 from 14 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $1980.00 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.
- Smith+Nephew$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$210,46144%
- Speaking & faculty fees$218,71545%
- Travel & lodging$42,9429%
- Food & beverage$8,9542%
- Education$6330%
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 | 449 | $538,749 |
| Avanos Medical | 19 | $24,840 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $2,393 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $817 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $147 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 3 | $57 |
| Abbott | 2 | $46 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $40 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $33 |
| Vertex | 1 | $30 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $25 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Moximed, Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $10 |
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.
- Journey II$303,151
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$205,675
- Navio Surgical System$124,509
- Journey II XR$76,656
- Journey II BCS$74,540
- Legion Revision$68,288
- JII Unicondylar Knee System$58,784
- Journey Uni$36,500
- NAVIO$31,812
- Tandem$25,768
- REDAPT$25,614
- Journey II CR$25,045
- Legion$24,709
- ON-Q$23,266
- RI.HIP NAVIGATION$17,722
- CORI$16,686
- BIRMINGHAM HIP$12,500
- Anthology$12,500
- KNEE3 Software$12,000
- PICO 7$11,700
How this compares
$567,345 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 377 orthopaedic surgery providers in Arizona.
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 | 39 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- David BailieScottsdale$253K
- Shane MartinScottsdale$244K
- Sherwood DuhonScottsdale$229K
- John BradwayScottsdale$219K
- Krishna MallikScottsdale$79K
- Timothy KavanaughScottsdale$71K
- Laura ProkuskiScottsdale$58K
- Paul GoodwynScottsdale$56K
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.