Caitlin Orner
Orthopaedic Surgery · Milwaukee, WINPI 1124481254
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — grants (47.8%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Arthrex accounts for 61.4% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $31,925 and has fallen 96.1% since, to $1,231 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in WI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 128 payments — averaging $326.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$26K
- Smith+Nephew$7K
- Saxum Surgical, Inc.$7K
- Enduromed, LLC$2K
- Stryker$316
- Acumed LLC$135
- plus $186 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1570%
- Grants$20,00048%
- Travel & lodging$4,95012%
- Food & beverage$4,50311%
- Education$12,21429%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 68 | $25,699 |
| Smith+Nephew | 24 | $6,981 |
| Saxum Surgical, Inc. | 17 | $6,567 |
| Enduromed, LLC | 11 | $1,940 |
| Stryker | 4 | $316 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $135 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $123 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $34 |
| Orthopediatrics Corp. | 1 | $29 |
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.
- Speedlock$512
- ACUMED$406
- N/A$358
- Q-FIX$251
- CINCHLOCK$147
- Accu-pass$146
- Acufex$143
- LENS 4K$137
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$137
- RF20000$137
- Accelero-None$123
- SPATIAL FRAME$109
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$109
- MICRORAPTOR$109
How this compares
$41,824 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 498 orthopaedic surgery providers in Wisconsin.
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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Milwaukee
- Joseph SchwabMilwaukee$191K
- Navjot KohliMilwaukee$145K
- James StoneMilwaukee$141K
- Donald HackbarthMilwaukee$106K
- Michael DeckerMilwaukee$56K
- Elizabeth NolteMilwaukee$41K
- Steven CherneyMilwaukee$31K
- Robert ChurchillGrafton$7.7M
- Richard IllgenMadison$6.1M
- Jeffrey McLaughlinOshkosh$2M
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.