Frederick Fletcher, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Albany, NYNPI 1134196843
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $34,500 of the $37,540 with a category attached, or 91.9%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 94.6% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $34,978 and has fallen 99.3% since, to $256 in 2025.
Across 55 payments — averaging $682.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$36K
- Stryker$632
- Maxx Orthopedics, Inc.$358
- Johnson & Johnson$311
- Lima USA, Inc.$253
- Medacta USA, Inc.$125
- plus $340 from 6 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $498.57 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.
- Conformis, Inc.$3K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$34,50092%
- Food & beverage$3,0408%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 17 | $35,522 |
| Stryker | 9 | $632 |
| Maxx Orthopedics, Inc. | 4 | $358 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $311 |
| Lima USA, Inc. | 2 | $253 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 2 | $125 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $118 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $68 |
| Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC | 1 | $60 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 3 | $33 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- VerSys$34,500
- Kinectiv$34,500
- G7$256
- MAKO$256
- Physica$253
- Master SL$253
- H-Max$253
- Robotics-Knees$146
- HAMMR CURVED G7 IMPACTOR$140
- Persona$140
- Velys$125
- AccuFill$122
- Z1 HIP SYSTEM$116
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$109
- AXSOS$109
- VARIAX$109
- HOFFMANN$109
- GAMMA$109
- GMK SPHERE$108
How this compares
$37,540 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,079 orthopaedic surgery providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 24 | $517 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 46 | $407 |
| Cephalexin | 58 | $379 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 18 | $116 |
| Ibuprofen | 24 | $106 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Albany
- Andrew RosenbaumAlbany$467K
- Anthony RomeoNew York$26.8M
- Lawrence LenkeNew York$26.8M
- Edwin SuNew York$13.2M
- William RicciNew York$11.6M
- Steven HaasNew York$11.3M
- Giles ScuderiNew York$10.7M
- Joseph ZuckermanNew York$9.9M
- Evan FlatowNew York$9.6M
- Bradford ParsonsNew York$9.4M
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.