Curtis Noel, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Akron, OHNPI 1205868973
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 349 payments — averaging $2438.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Exactech, Inc.$814K
- Arthrex$23K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$8K
- Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc.$3K
- Shoulder Innovations, Inc.$1K
- Stryker$993
- plus $1K from 7 others
Across 10 payments — averaging $21,167 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.$195K
- Advita Ortho, LLC$17K
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. | 197 | $813,822 |
| Arthrex | 91 | $23,057 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 8 | $7,978 |
| Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc. | 20 | $2,691 |
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 2 | $1,127 |
| Stryker | 16 | $993 |
| 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
$851,102 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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
- Reuben GobezieCleveland$12.6M
- Brad PichaIndependence$12.3M
- Gregory BerletWorthington$9.9M
- Wael BarsoumCleveland$8.9M
- Brian CohenChillicothe$8.9M
- Joseph IannottiCleveland$7.1M
- John SontichYoungstown$3.6M
- Anthony MiniaciCleveland$3.1M
- Mark FroimsonCleveland$2.9M
- David WelkerMiamisburg$2.8M
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.