Eric Lerche, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery · Traverse City, MINPI 1225264005
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 49 payments — averaging $117.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$2K
- Medwest Associates$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$444
- Johnson & Johnson$327
- Stryker$288
- Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc$150
- plus $465 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,79931%
- Food & beverage$1,85032%
- Education$2,10337%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 9 | $2,322 |
| Medwest Associates | 5 | $1,757 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $444 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $327 |
| Stryker | 7 | $288 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 1 | $150 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $105 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $41 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 4 | $41 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Zak Ortho | 1 | $32 |
| Embody, Inc. | 2 | $16 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$5,753 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 829 orthopaedic surgery providers in Michigan.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Clindamycin Hcl | 20 | $844 |
| Meloxicam | 88 | $598 |
| Mupirocin | 53 | $353 |
| Methylprednisolone | 34 | $157 |
| Amoxicillin | 89 | $80 |
| Cephalexin | 27 | $60 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 19 | $59 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Traverse City
- Christopher ChuinardTraverse City$1.5M
- Asheesh BediAnn Arbor$9.4M
- Jerome WiaterBeverly Hills$5.7M
- Jad KhalilSouthfield$3.7M
- Mark PintoChelsea$3.2M
- Kyle AndersonBingham Farms$3.1M
- Stephen BartolDetroit$2.6M
- Jeffrey FischgrundSouthfield$1.8M
- David MarkelSouthfield$1.7M
- Richard EastonRochester Hills$1.6M
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.