Has Christopher Scanlon, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $15,354 in general payments to Christopher Scanlon, MD across 141 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Christopher Scanlon, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Christopher Scanlon, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Christopher Scanlon, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1316392418

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (42.2%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimmer Biomet at 24.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,655, more than ten times the $22 reported in 2019.

$15,354in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 141 payments — averaging $108.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$4K
Smith+Nephew$4K
Johnson & Johnson$2K
Stryker$2K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
ZOLL Medical Corporation$840
plus $1K from 10 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$2,09014%
Speaking & faculty fees$1,80512%
Travel & lodging$4,41329%
Food & beverage$6,47342%
Education$5734%

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
Zimmer Biomet	38	$3,785
Smith+Nephew	10	$3,585
Johnson & Johnson	57	$2,201
Stryker	12	$2,108
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	2	$1,805
ZOLL Medical Corporation	2	$840
Kerecis Limited	4	$223
Vertex	8	$192
Intellijoint Surgical Inc.	1	$188
Globus Medical	1	$150
Lifenet Health	1	$100
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$60
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$36
CSL Behring	1	$32
Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC	1	$27
Convatec Inc.	1	$22

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.

How this compares

$15,354 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 85 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$179,563

Medicare patients

297

Services billed

1,574

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
Daptomycin	12	$19,392
Diclofenac Sodium	97	$6,116
Tizanidine Hcl	195	$2,465
Celecoxib	154	$2,321
Nabumetone	110	$1,398
Lidocaine	15	$1,178
Meloxicam	334	$947
Oxycodone Hcl	160	$801
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	87	$551
Gabapentin	19	$355
Tramadol Hcl	92	$307
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	20	$225
Methylprednisolone	30	$210
Ibuprofen	20	$204
Naproxen	25	$184

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in New York

Seth JerabekNew York$7.1M
Jose RodriguezNew York$3.4M
Friedrich BoettnerNew York$2.9M
Jonathan VigdorchikNew York$2.3M
William LongNew York$1.5M
Peter SculcoNew York$1.5M
Roshan ShahNew York$1.3M
Herbert CooperNew York$1.3M
Matthew AustinNew York$986K
Patrick MeereNew York$191K

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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.

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