Brett Wiater, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Beverly Hills, MINPI 1154432714
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 156 payments — averaging $244.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Catalyst Orthoscience$29K
- Stryker$3K
- Smith+Nephew$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Encore Medical, LP$978
- Zimmer Biomet$604
- plus $201 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,10034%
- Travel & lodging$2,69218%
- Food & beverage$7,16548%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 21 | $29,485 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 26 | $3,136 |
| Smith+Nephew | 72 | $2,586 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 14 | $1,170 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 9 | $978 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 9 | $604 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $77 |
| Pinnacle, Inc | 2 | $69 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $40 |
| Amgen | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Archer CSR Total Shoulder System$3,766
- Archer R1 Reverse Shoulder System$3,766
- Catalyst Total CSR$1,608
- T2$1,335
- GAMMA$1,335
- INHANCE$927
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$773
- REUNION$655
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$633
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$295
- MICRORAPTOR Knotless Anchor$269
- DJO Surgical TaperFill Hip System$252
- Catalyst CSR Shoulder System$246
- MICRORAPTOR Knotless Shoulder$173
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$152
- Healicoil$146
- WEREWOLF$137
- LENS 4K$136
- Q-Fix Mini$135
- Trabecular Metal TM Instruments$124
How this compares
$38,160 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 829 orthopaedic surgery providers in Michigan.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 25 | $158 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Beverly Hills
- Jerome WiaterBeverly Hills$5.7M
- Patrick WiaterBeverly Hills$517K
- Asheesh BediAnn Arbor$9.4M
- Jad KhalilSouthfield$3.7M
- Mark PintoChelsea$3.2M
- Kyle AndersonBingham Farms$3.1M
- Stephen BartolDetroit$2.6M
- Jeffrey FischgrundSouthfield$1.8M
- David MarkelSouthfield$1.7M
- Richard EastonRochester Hills$1.6M
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.