Douglas Ehrler, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Akron, OHNPI 1427144690
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,952 of the $3,208 with a category attached, or 60.8%. Medtronic accounts for 99.2% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in OH, where the typical reported total is $9,469.
Across 27 payments — averaging $118.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$14
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$12
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,95261%
- Food & beverage$1,25639%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 25 | $3,182 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $14 |
| Orthofix Medical, 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.
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$2,637
How this compares
$3,208 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Ohio.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 75 | $176 |
| Methylprednisolone | 22 | $141 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Akron
- Scot MillerAkron$404K
- Keegan ConryAkron$86K
- Bradley InkrottAkron$83K
- Eric NeumannAkron$9K
- Gordon PrestonAkron$2K
- Matthew JaykelAkron$2K
- Ashok BiyaniToledo$1.2M
- Jason SavageCleveland$735K
- Jerold GurleyCleveland$649K
- Paul EichenseerWesterville$369K
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.