Has Eric Schweller received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $41,290 in general payments to Eric Schweller across 200 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 Schweller 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 Schweller 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 Schweller

Orthopaedic Surgery · Garden City, MINPI 1740690775

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (30.6%), grants and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smith+Nephew at 27.5% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $17,821, more than ten times the $1,153 reported in 2019.

$41,290in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 200 payments — averaging $206.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$11K
Pinnacle, Inc$8K
Zimmer Biomet$5K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$4K
Stryker$4K
Arthrex$3K
plus $6K from 16 others

What the payments were for

Grants$11,79529%
Travel & lodging$12,61531%
Food & beverage$8,59721%
Education$8,28320%

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
Smith+Nephew	20	$11,365
Pinnacle, Inc	34	$7,896
Zimmer Biomet	16	$5,061
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	16	$4,137
Stryker	51	$4,130
Arthrex	25	$2,864
Exactech, Inc.	6	$2,781
ALON Medical Technology	2	$1,205
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	12	$629
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$234
KCI USA, Inc.	4	$154
Linvatec Corporation	1	$147
Vericel Corporation	1	$120
DJO, LLC	1	$118
Baxter Healthcare	1	$115
Medacta USA, Inc.	1	$93
Ortho Development Corporation	1	$75
Kerecis Limited	1	$69
Blue Surgical LLC	2	$42
Bioventus LLC	1	$25
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	1	$18
GRT US Holding, 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.

How this compares

$41,290 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 829 orthopaedic surgery providers in Michigan.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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