Christopher Dale, MD
Sports Medicine · Janesville, WINPI 1639116890
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (50.4%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 32 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.8%. 2025 is the largest year on record at $5,796, 5.8 times the $1,008 reported in 2019. Among sports medicine 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 155 payments — averaging $132.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$4K
- Zimmer Biomet$4K
- Arthrex$4K
- Great Lakes Orthopedics$1K
- Encore Medical, LP$1K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$807
- plus $4K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$10,31750%
- Food & beverage$8,89643%
- Education$1,2516%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 30 | $4,457 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 18 | $4,385 |
| Arthrex | 38 | $4,062 |
| Great Lakes Orthopedics | 4 | $1,342 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 2 | $1,309 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 7 | $807 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $757 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $654 |
| Stryker | 8 | $607 |
| Enduromed, LLC | 5 | $322 |
| Conformis, Inc. | 2 | $268 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 3 | $251 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $148 |
| Maxx Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $130 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $110 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $107 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $106 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC | 1 | $87 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $72 |
| BD | 1 | $51 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $45 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 2 | $22 |
| Flower Orthopedics Coporation | 1 | $19 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Biom'up SA | 1 | $17 |
| Amgen | 1 | $15 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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.
- DJO SURGICAL$4,243
- Q-FIX Hip$1,622
- Hipstruments$1,515
- Persona$1,387
- Healicoil$634
- Oxford$590
- MICRORAPTOR Knotless Hip$523
- AMISTEM$365
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$353
- OVOMotion$283
- X-Twist$283
- Actiflip$283
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$251
- MOTO UNI$243
- Q-FIX$218
- AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$174
- BioBrace 23mm$148
- iTotal Identity PS$148
- Identity Imprint Knee Replacement System$148
- ARTHREX$144
How this compares
$20,464 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 93 sports medicine 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 37 | $298 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Janesville
- Dennys MaldonadoJanesville$350
- Gregory CrovettiMount Pleasant$424K
- Andrea SpikerMadison$228K
- Brian GroganMadison$71K
- Jeffrey RossowWeston$69K
- Haley SmithMadison$65K
- Molly DayMadison$46K
- Eric CotterMadison$33K
- Jonathan StoneFranklin$20K
- Terry RomanWatertown$18K
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.