Has Eric Ricchetti, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,098,585 in general payments to Eric Ricchetti, MD across 461 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Eric Ricchetti, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Eric Ricchetti, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Eric Ricchetti, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Cleveland, OHNPI 1548320310

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,426,132 of the $2,098,585 with a category attached, or 68.0%. Encore Medical, LP accounts for 97.7% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in OH 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.

$2,098,585in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 461 payments — averaging $4552.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Encore Medical, LP$2M
Insight Medical Systems, Inc.$42K
DJO, LLC$5K
Stryker$370
FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc$284
Johnson & Johnson$235
plus $774 from 8 others

$166,982in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $23,855 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.

Zimmer Biomet$147K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$20K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$1,426,13268%
Consulting fees$633,75030%
Speaking & faculty fees$2130%
Travel & lodging$32,5932%
Food & beverage$5,6230%
Education$2750%

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
Encore Medical, LP	415	$2,049,627
Insight Medical Systems, Inc.	22	$42,210
DJO, LLC	3	$5,086
Stryker	3	$370
FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc	2	$284
Johnson & Johnson	3	$235
Restor3d, Inc.	1	$215
Zimmer Biomet	2	$181
Nexus Medical Technologies LLC	3	$142
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$135
GRT US Holding, Inc.	2	$31
Exactech, Inc.	1	$31
Averitas Pharma Inc.	1	$24
Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc.	1	$16

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.

DJO SURGICAL$1,727,779
DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$516,810
DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$102,302
ARVIS$42,210
DJO Surgical Match Point System$22,924
DJO Surgical Discovery Elbow System$18,226
BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$311
INHANCE$231
AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$170
AEQUALIS PERFORM$170
AEQUALIS FLEX REVIVE$170
GLOBAL$106
DJO Surgical Alians Proximal Humerus Fracture Plate$101

How this compares

$2,098,585 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 794 orthopaedic surgery providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$290,440

Medicare patients

571

Services billed

1,245

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
Mupirocin	23	$132
Doxycycline Hyclate	11	$121
Amoxicillin	43	$64
Oxycodone Hcl	17	$60

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Cleveland

Reuben GobezieCleveland$12M
Wael BarsoumCleveland$8.9M
Joseph IannottiCleveland$7.1M
Anthony MiniaciCleveland$3.1M
Kenneth GreeneCleveland$2.6M
Mark FroimsonCleveland$2.5M
Robert MolloyCleveland$2.3M
Thomas MrozCleveland$1.3M
Robert GillespieCleveland$672K
George ThompsonCleveland$420K

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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.

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