Blake Ohlson, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Mt Pleasant, SCNPI 1609097153
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 116 payments — averaging $110.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$3K
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$3K
- Arthrex$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Conformis, Inc.$903
- plus $1K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,50051%
- Food & beverage$5,35442%
- Education$7256%
- Gifts$1922%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 16 | $2,638 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 18 | $2,627 |
| Arthrex | 12 | $2,012 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 36 | $1,772 |
| Smith+Nephew | 12 | $1,540 |
| Conformis, Inc. | 5 | $903 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $517 |
| Acumed LLC | 2 | $247 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Ossdsign USA Incorporated | 1 | $90 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $70 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $49 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Vertex | 1 | $15 |
| Merck | 1 | $11 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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.
- Lapiplasty System$2,236
- Kerecis SurgiClose$915
- Peri-Loc PFP$787
- Peri-Loc$787
- iTotal Identity PS$783
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$664
- MAKO$364
- Endobutton$311
- Kerecis GraftGuide$229
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$221
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$221
- CARTIVA$192
- ANCHORAGE$172
- EASYFUSE$171
- MICA$150
- Hip$146
- iTotal, Identity CR$146
- ACUMED$137
- Product Portfolio$125
- Regeneten$115
How this compares
$12,770 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 325 orthopaedic surgery providers in South Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 15 | $83 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Mt Pleasant
- Richard FrischMt Pleasant$1M
- Harold SchutteMt Pleasant$40K
- William SmithColumbia$7.7M
- Brent PonceCharleston$892K
- Chi LimSpartanburg$512K
- Todd LansfordNorth Charleston$288K
- Nicholas GrimaldiColumbia$203K
- Richard MarksWest Columbia$176K
- Brayton ShirleyGreer$134K
- James LogingClinton$118K
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.