Chinenye Nwachuku, MD
Orthopaedic Trauma · Bethlehem, PANPI 1396981940
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,930 of the $2,147 with a category attached, or 89.9%. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 28.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $764 and has fallen 53.6% since, to $354 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic trauma clinicians in PA, where the typical reported total is $12,618.
Across 30 payments — averaging $71.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$608
- Johnson & Johnson$578
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$569
- Stryker$329
- Zimmer Biomet$38
- Acumed LLC$27
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$21710%
- Food & beverage$1,93090%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 8 | $608 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $578 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $569 |
| Stryker | 5 | $329 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $38 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $27 |
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.
- LCP$292
- Actify$213
- TFN-Advance$185
- Anthem$174
- Autobahn$174
- INHANCE$113
- INSTRUMENTS$111
- NONE$110
- TFN ADVANCED$109
- INJECTOR II$103
How this compares
$2,147 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 21 orthopaedic trauma providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 101 | $2,068 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 22 | $536 |
| Amoxicillin | 71 | $96 |
| Folic Acid | 16 | $85 |
| Meloxicam | 33 | $53 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic trauma in Bethlehem
- Michael SirkinEast Stroudsburg$175K
- Christopher RashidifardYork$37K
- Erik Hasenboehlerdu Bois$32K
- Robert WesselAllentown$27K
- Thomas DipasqualeYork$20K
- David BartonHershey$18K
- Nicole WeiPittsburgh$17K
- Maxime CharbonneauPittsburgh$14K
- Ryan MichelsWest Reading$14K
- Jeremy HrehaAllentown$13K
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.