Erin Pichiotino, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Morrisville, VTNPI 1134653041
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $16,716 of the $26,306 with a category attached, or 63.5%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Peerless Surgical Inc. at 39.2% of the total. 2023 is the largest year on record at $10,131, 2.1 times the $4,727 reported in 2019.
Across 73 payments — averaging $360.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$10K
- Smith+Nephew$9K
- Stryker$3K
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- Encore Medical, LP$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$197
- plus $356 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5006%
- Travel & lodging$4,88419%
- Food & beverage$3,20612%
- Education$16,71664%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 10 | $10,318 |
| Smith+Nephew | 11 | $8,790 |
| Stryker | 27 | $3,261 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 13 | $1,752 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 5 | $1,631 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $197 |
| Orthalign Inc | 1 | $172 |
| Wishbone Medical Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
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$3,000
- OR3O Dual Mobility$2,133
- RI.HIP NAVIGATION$2,133
- JOURNEY$2,013
- MAKO$1,589
- POLARSTEM$1,209
- TRIATHLON$1,011
- Tandem$924
- Oxford$860
- Avenir$539
- T2$483
- ORTHALIGN PLUS$172
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$166
- ATTUNE$155
How this compares
$26,306 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 37 orthopaedic surgery providers in Vermont.
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 | 178 | $396 |
| Mupirocin | 15 | $81 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 16 | $52 |
| Amoxicillin | 16 | $6 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Morrisville
- John MacyMorrisville$245K
- Bryan HuberMorrisville$57K
- Nicholas AntellMorrisville$32K
- Ethan HarlowMorrisville$26K
- Brian ArosMorrisville$10K
- Joseph McLaughlinMorrisville$2K
- Jeremy KorshSt Johnsbury$33K
- James LevinsBurlington$21K
- Nathan MauserSaint Albans$20K
- Nathaniel NelmsSouth Burlington$18K
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.