RxDoctor Payments Data

Daniel Hackett, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Lexington, KYNPI 1306132360

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $70,484 of the $104,299 with a category attached, or 67.6%. 36 manufacturers reported payments, led by Encore Medical, LP at 35.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $51,083, more than ten times the $4,457 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in KY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$104,299in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 295 payments — averaging $353.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Encore Medical, LP$37K
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$28K
  • Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$11K
  • Linvatec Corporation$11K
  • Smith+Nephew$3K
  • Johnson & Johnson$3K
  • plus $10K from 30 others
$125,478in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $125,478 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

  • Zurimed Technologies Inc.$125K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$70,48468%
  • Travel & lodging$19,06818%
  • Food & beverage$11,96711%
  • Education$2,7803%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$104,299 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 322 orthopaedic surgery providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$161,509
Medicare patients
328
Services billed
16,164

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen170$932
Diclofenac Sodium33$324
Oxycodone Hcl75$259
Pregabalin14$259
Ondansetron Hcl65$188
Meloxicam30$89
Tramadol Hcl33$70
Gabapentin26$69
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen12$68

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Lexington

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