David Barei
Orthopaedic Trauma · Seattle, WANPI 1316023112
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $505,564 of the $543,374 with a category attached, or 93.0%. Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. accounts for 93.0% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $123,830, 2.4 times the $51,415 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic trauma clinicians in WA 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.
Across 92 payments — averaging $5906.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$506K
- Synthes GmbH$12K
- Zimmer Biomet$11K
- Illuminoss Medical, Inc.$4K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$4K
- Orthogrid Systems Inc$3K
- plus $2K from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$505,56493%
- Consulting fees$16,4813%
- Speaking & faculty fees$12,8752%
- Travel & lodging$6,9671%
- Food & beverage$1,4870%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 28 | $505,564 |
| Synthes GmbH | 18 | $12,054 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 19 | $11,276 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 3 | $4,482 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $4,350 |
| Orthogrid Systems Inc | 1 | $3,381 |
| Smith+Nephew | 9 | $1,948 |
| Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $163 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $129 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $25 |
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.
- EXPert Nail$401,617
- EX NAILS$103,947
- Photodynamic Bone Stabilization Procedure Pack$4,482
- LCP PLATES & SCREWS$3,510
- EVOS$1,823
- Trauma Product Portfolio$1,000
- LCP$840
- VA-LCP$840
- PRECICE$163
How this compares
$543,374 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 33 orthopaedic trauma providers in Washington.
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 trauma in Seattle
- Sean NorkSeattle$2.4M
- Reza FiroozabadiSeattle$1.6M
- Conor KlewenoSeattle$695K
- Michael HenleySeattle$491K
- Malcolm DebaunSeattle$228K
- Michael GithensSeattle$61K
- Robert DunbarSeattle$24K
- William LackSeattle$23K
- Lisa TaitsmanSeattle$20K
- Noelle van RysselbergheSeattle$13K
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.