Frank Johannes Plate
Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1942644406
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (38.8%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Smith+Nephew accounts for 93.4% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $76,614 and has fallen 64.2% since, to $27,429 in 2025. Among adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery clinicians in PA 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 332 payments — averaging $719.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$223K
- Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.$4K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$3K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- Stryker$1K
- plus $2K from 6 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $55,675 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.
- Onkos Surgical, Inc.$56K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$92,77539%
- Speaking & faculty fees$83,05035%
- Grants$2,0211%
- Travel & lodging$36,72115%
- Food & beverage$16,9487%
- Education$7,5003%
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 | 247 | $223,212 |
| Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc. | 12 | $4,399 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 22 | $3,014 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 10 | $2,703 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $2,400 |
| Stryker | 14 | $1,269 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 4 | $561 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 4 | $436 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $367 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $287 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $231 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 3 | $136 |
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$144,370
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$88,464
- REDAPT$83,476
- POLARSTEM$81,379
- Tandem$76,287
- OR3O Dual Mobility$56,170
- POLARCUP$56,016
- Anthology$42,899
- Engage Partial Knee System$25,597
- Legion Revision$22,512
- POLAR3$22,151
- OR3O$22,147
- R3 ACETABULAR$18,688
- K-15 PORK$17,550
- RI.HIP NAVIGATION$17,154
- Legion$14,250
- HIP7$4,937
- JOURNEY$3,738
- PICO$2,293
- Grants$2,021
How this compares
$239,015 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 51 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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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 | 263 | $566 |
| Amoxicillin | 143 | $216 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 32 | $120 |
| Methylprednisolone | 17 | $100 |
| Gabapentin | 36 | $48 |
| Cephalexin | 45 | $47 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 47 | $47 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Pittsburgh
- Jeffrey SeweckePittsburgh$84K
- Noelle Digioia GuthriePittsburgh$15K
- Joseph KromkaPittsburgh$11K
- Lee SasalaPittsburgh$9K
- Matthew HadadPittsburgh$9K
- Timothy WaldenPittsburgh$9K
- James PiperPittsburgh$5K
- Todd BalogPittsburgh$5K
- Adolph YatesPittsburgh$561
- Robert BoothPhiladelphia$15M
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.