Craig Silverton, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery · Detroit, MINPI 1114093580
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $657,279 of the $724,525 with a category attached, or 90.7%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 90.9% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $287,429 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $318 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MI 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 61 payments — averaging $11,877 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$659K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$63K
- Stryker$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$325
- Smith+Nephew$131
- Medacta USA, Inc.$121
- plus $495 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$657,27991%
- Speaking & faculty fees$63,1969%
- Travel & lodging$1,7160%
- Food & beverage$2,3340%
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 | 34 | $658,515 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 1 | $63,196 |
| Stryker | 14 | $1,741 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $325 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $131 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $94 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $73 |
| Kinamed, Inc. | 1 | $71 |
| Austin Medical Ventures Inc | 1 | $52 |
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
$724,525 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 829 orthopaedic surgery providers in Michigan.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 21 | $84 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Detroit
- Stephen BartolDetroit$2.6M
- Stephanie MuhDetroit$459K
- Thomas LynchDetroit$221K
- Jonathan BramanDetroit$112K
- Ryan BergerDetroit$84K
- Rahul VaidyaDetroit$72K
- Hussein DarwicheDetroit$68K
- Asheesh BediAnn Arbor$9.4M
- Jerome WiaterBeverly Hills$3.9M
- Mark PintoChelsea$3.2M
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.