Brendan Smith
Orthopaedic Surgery · Bethlehem, PANPI 1649895178
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 82 payments — averaging $144.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$3K
- Smith+Nephew$3K
- Stryker$2K
- Encore Medical, LP$1K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$748
- Johnson & Johnson$558
- plus $1K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$2,50021%
- Travel & lodging$4,88941%
- Food & beverage$4,35937%
- Entertainment$1091%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 17 | $3,464 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $2,500 |
| Stryker | 12 | $1,702 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 7 | $1,416 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $748 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 18 | $558 |
| Axogen | 3 | $255 |
| Novus Surgical Consultants | 5 | $200 |
| Acumed LLC | 3 | $159 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $150 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $134 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $109 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $106 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $73 |
| Novus Surgical Solutions LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Persona$1,544
- DJO SURGICAL$1,344
- MAKO$928
- TrueLok$748
- ACUMED$325
- INFINITY$280
- Biasurge$148
- ACTIS$148
- HOFFMANN$143
- VARIAX$143
- FLEXBAND$143
- PRESTIGE LP CERVICAL DISC SYSTEM$139
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$129
- mymobility Platform$118
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$111
- MagnetOs$109
How this compares
$11,858 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,048 orthopaedic surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 11 | $76 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Bethlehem
- William HozackBensalem$10.6M
- Jess LonnerBryn Mawr$8.1M
- Gerald WilliamsBryn Mawr$6.8M
- Mark LazarusBensalem$6.4M
- John FenlinPhiladelphia$5.9M
- Peter SharkeyKing Of Prussia$5.7M
- Selene ParekhBensalem$4.9M
- Alexander VaccaroPhiladelphia$4.5M
- Joseph AbboudPhiladelphia$4.1M
- Jonathan GarinoMalvern$3.8M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.