Has Curtis Noel, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $633,506 in general payments to Curtis Noel, MD across 331 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 Curtis Noel, 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 Curtis Noel, 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.

Curtis Noel, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Akron, OHNPI 1205868973

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (58.8%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Exactech, Inc. accounts for 95.2% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $165,213, 2.6 times the $62,730 reported in 2019. 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.

$633,506in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 331 payments — averaging $1913.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Exactech, Inc.$603K
Arthrex$23K
Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc.$3K
Shoulder Innovations, Inc.$1K
Stryker$993
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$822
plus $1K from 7 others

$429,261in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $15,331 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.

Exactech, Inc.$405K
Advita Ortho, LLC$17K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$7K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$372,67959%
Consulting fees$188,23530%
Speaking & faculty fees$10,0002%
Travel & lodging$44,4847%
Food & beverage$15,0082%
Education$3,1000%

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
Exactech, Inc.	182	$603,382
Arthrex	91	$23,057
Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc.	20	$2,691
Shoulder Innovations, Inc.	2	$1,127
Stryker	16	$993
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	5	$822
Johnson & Johnson	7	$562
Nexus Medical Technologies LLC	2	$469
Smith+Nephew	2	$141
Zimmer Biomet	1	$127
Integrity Orthopaedics, Inc.	1	$102
Linvatec Corporation	1	$20
Globus Medical	1	$12

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.

EQUINOXE$488,945
OPTECURE$72,229
EQUINOXE PHX SYSTEM$12,172
InSet System$1,127
BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$439
AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$297
INHANCE$230
AEQUALIS PERFORM$170
AEQUALIS FLEX REVIVE$170
Comprehensive Shoulder$127
Connected Health-MyMobility$127
REGENETEN Shoulder$121
DELTA$117
ATTUNE$108
Kincise Surgical Automated System$108
ARTHREX$102
Integrity Orthopaedics$102

How this compares

$633,506 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 794 orthopaedic surgery providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$252,198

Medicare patients

622

Services billed

1,966

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
Methylprednisolone	30	$137
Amoxicillin	119	$116
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	16	$91
Clindamycin Hcl	22	$15

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Akron

Michael SmithAkron$72K
Kiel PfefferleAkron$65K
Reuben GobezieCleveland$12M
Gregory BerletWorthington$9.6M
Wael BarsoumCleveland$8.9M
Brian CohenChillicothe$8.8M
Joseph IannottiCleveland$7.1M
John SontichYoungstown$3.6M
Anthony MiniaciCleveland$3.1M
David WelkerMiamisburg$2.8M

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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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