Christina Hardesty, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Cleveland, OHNPI 1205055530
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $86,503 of the $138,920 with a category attached, or 62.3%. Medtronic accounts for 69.2% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $34,346 and has fallen 54.3% since, to $15,701 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 154 payments — averaging $902.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$96K
- Orthopediatrics Corp.$41K
- Philips North America LLC$1K
- Mighty Oak Medical$339
- Innovation Technologies Inc$158
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$121
- plus $308 from 4 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $1208.33 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$7K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$10,2537%
- Consulting fees$21,12615%
- Speaking & faculty fees$86,50362%
- Travel & lodging$15,73811%
- Food & beverage$5,3004%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 100 | $96,118 |
| Orthopediatrics Corp. | 43 | $40,675 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $1,200 |
| Mighty Oak Medical | 3 | $339 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $158 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $104 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $74 |
| Nview Medical, Inc | 1 | $24 |
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.
- SYNCHROMEDII$44,201
- SYNCHROMED$26,148
- LIORESAL$14,650
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$7,570
- Response Spine$4,646
- Orthopediatric Implants$3,296
- INTELLIS$1,616
- (9547) IGT Systems Undivided$1,200
- Irrisept$158
- Pedi-Nail$118
- PRECICE$106
How this compares
$138,920 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 794 orthopaedic surgery providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dantrolene Sodium | 13 | $1,444 |
| Baclofen | 38 | $1,316 |
| Diazepam | 13 | $42 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Cleveland
- Reuben GobezieCleveland$12M
- Wael BarsoumCleveland$8.9M
- Joseph IannottiCleveland$7.1M
- Anthony MiniaciCleveland$3.1M
- Kenneth GreeneCleveland$2.6M
- Mark FroimsonCleveland$2.5M
- Robert MolloyCleveland$2.3M
- Eric RicchettiCleveland$2.1M
- Thomas MrozCleveland$1.3M
- Robert GillespieCleveland$672K
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.