Eric Cohen, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Providence, RINPI 1245523463
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $44,027 of the $71,659 with a category attached, or 61.4%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 45.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $61,466, more than ten times the $247 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in RI 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 131 payments — averaging $547.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$33K
- Smith+Nephew$29K
- Encore Medical, LP$4K
- Zimmer Biomet$4K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$861
- plus $700 from 5 others
Across 8 payments — averaging $27,202 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.
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$218K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$44,02761%
- Speaking & faculty fees$11,52516%
- Travel & lodging$8,97313%
- Food & beverage$6,6549%
- Education$4801%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 40 | $32,787 |
| Smith+Nephew | 32 | $28,751 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 5 | $3,700 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 29 | $3,678 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 4 | $1,183 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 15 | $861 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 1 | $305 |
| Stryker | 2 | $156 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $79 |
| Orthalign Inc | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Journey II$40,119
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$21,146
- K-15 PORK$19,275
- DJO SURGICAL$10,388
- ACTIS$2,980
- Avenir$1,814
- JOURNEY$1,496
- AMISTEM$1,018
- ATTUNE$954
- Velys$566
- Oxford-Knees$480
- COMBOGESIC IV$305
- Kincise$238
- Persona$235
- Legion$234
- M-VIZION$144
- ARISTA$143
- MAKO$139
- EMPHASYS$123
- RECLAIM$115
How this compares
$71,659 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 124 orthopaedic surgery providers in Rhode Island.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Naloxone Hcl | 12 | $701 |
| Meloxicam | 116 | $425 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 81 | $333 |
| Amoxicillin | 75 | $233 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 36 | $226 |
| Methylprednisolone | 19 | $130 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Providence
- Edward PaxtonProvidence$244K
- Steven BokshanProvidence$130K
- Erin HaggertyProvidence$67K
- Todd BorensteinProvidence$49K
- Mark PalumboProvidence$39K
- Brian CohenProvidence$32K
- Scott MallozziProvidence$28K
- Peter WagnerProvidence$26K
- Craig EbersonProvidence$26K
- Jeremy TruntzerProvidence$25K
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.