Daniel Cepela
Orthopaedic Surgery · Anchorage, AKNPI 1437418811
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (35.2%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Pavmed Inc. at 42.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $3,941 and has fallen 82.9% since, to $675 in 2025.
Across 109 payments — averaging $85.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pavmed Inc.$4K
- Stryker$3K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Arthrex$1K
- Acumed LLC$195
- Smith+Nephew$65
- plus $266 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,30035%
- Travel & lodging$3,21334%
- Food & beverage$2,85230%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pavmed Inc. | 2 | $3,941 |
| Stryker | 54 | $2,526 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 11 | $1,200 |
| Arthrex | 19 | $1,171 |
| Acumed LLC | 7 | $195 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $65 |
| Axogen | 1 | $41 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $39 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $29 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $29 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $28 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Alaska Medical Technologies, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 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.
How this compares
$9,365 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 63 orthopaedic surgery providers in Alaska.
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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Anchorage
- Bryan HaughomAnchorage$179K
- Benjamin PackardAnchorage$40K
- Kenneth ThomasAnchorage$35K
- Jason GrayAnchorage$17K
- Ian BrimhallAnchorage$17K
- Thomas PaynterAnchorage$14K
- Kevin PaisleyAnchorage$10K
- Lars MatkinAnchorage$9K
- Adam EllisonAnchorage$8K
- Bradley SparksAnchorage$7K
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.