Frank Noyes, MD
Sports Medicine · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1407851728
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (56.7%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Arthrex accounts for 89.4% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,546 and has fallen 92.4% since, to $118 in 2024.
Across 33 payments — averaging $69.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$2K
- Smith+Nephew$166
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$51
- Bioventus LLC$14
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$12
Across 8 payments — averaging $30,278 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.
- Smith+Nephew$215K
- Stryker$27K
- Encore Medical, LP$800
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$65028%
- Travel & lodging$34315%
- Food & beverage$1,30157%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 26 | $2,051 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $166 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 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
$2,294 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 278 sports medicine providers in Ohio.
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.
Other sports medicine in Cincinnati
- Vincent SammarcoCincinnati$361K
- Melissa SummersCincinnati$89K
- Brian GraweCincinnati$50K
- Timothy KremchekCincinnati$28K
- George MaticCincinnati$22K
- Michelle AndrewsCincinnati$22K
- Ian RiceCincinnati$14K
- Samir SharrakCincinnati$12K
- David FlaniganColumbus$915K
- Thomas EllisDublin$427K
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.