David Fisher
Orthopaedic Surgery · Indianapolis, INNPI 1922050988
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $5,742,988 of the $5,929,392 with a category attached, or 96.9%. Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. accounts for 97.7% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in IN 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.
Across 194 payments — averaging $30,564 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$5.8M
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$138K
- Crossroads Orthopedics, LLC$520
- Johnson & Johnson$147
- Stryker$39
Across 2 payments — averaging $1250.00 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.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$5,742,98897%
- Consulting fees$170,1923%
- Travel & lodging$14,0060%
- Food & beverage$1,6870%
- Education$5200%
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. | 133 | $5,790,838 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 58 | $137,847 |
| Crossroads Orthopedics, LLC | 1 | $520 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $147 |
| Stryker | 1 | $39 |
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
$5,929,392 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 400 orthopaedic surgery providers in Indiana.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Indianapolis
- Michael BerendIndianapolis$4M
- Sanford KunkelIndianapolis$1.9M
- Hill HastingsIndianapolis$1.6M
- Michael CrossIndianapolis$870K
- Brian MullisIndianapolis$632K
- Dean MaarIndianapolis$589K
- Russell SwannIndianapolis$135K
- Thomas FischerIndianapolis$117K
- Wesley LackeyIndianapolis$115K
- Mark DillonIndianapolis$98K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.