Has George Ochenjele, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $344,097 in general payments to George Ochenjele, MD across 447 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 George Ochenjele, MD 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 George Ochenjele, MD 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.

George Ochenjele, MD

Orthopaedic Trauma · Cleveland, OHNPI 1467773689

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $247,426 of the $344,097 with a category attached, or 71.9%. Stryker accounts for 78.3% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $109,869, more than ten times the $2,357 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic trauma clinicians in OH 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.

$344,097in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 447 payments — averaging $769.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$269K
Bone Support Inc.$37K
Synthes GmbH$20K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$12K
Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.$2K
Acumed LLC$1K
plus $2K from 12 others

$101,423in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $8451.92 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.

BONE Support AB$69K
Bone Support Inc.$32K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$247,42672%
Speaking & faculty fees$10,0003%
Travel & lodging$70,36520%
Food & beverage$16,0675%
Education$2390%

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
Stryker	310	$269,422
Bone Support Inc.	36	$36,682
Synthes GmbH	22	$20,344
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	9	$11,859
Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.	16	$2,366
Acumed LLC	8	$1,312
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	13	$923
Smith+Nephew	15	$777
Globus Medical	3	$83
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$49
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	2	$47
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	3	$44
KCI USA, Inc.	2	$42
Organogenesis Inc.	1	$38
Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc.	2	$34
Kerecis Limited	1	$30
My01 Inc.	1	$26
Mimedx Group, Inc.	1	$20

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.

PRO$98,066
AXSOS$97,527
VARIAX$74,631
CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$36,454
GAMMA$36,197
T2$34,164
AUGMENT INJECTABLE$29,187
T2 ALPHA$29,065
HOFFMANN$28,248
PANGEA$21,888
CERAMENT G$17,859
ASNIS$16,837
NA$12,872
INBONE$12,825
MAKO$12,659
EVOLVE TRIAD$5,175
OsteoCentric 4.0 x 130mm LOCKING BONE SCREW FASTENER ST$1,779
TRIDENT$1,200
INSIGNIA$1,000
PELVIS II$970

How this compares

$344,097 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 38 orthopaedic trauma providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$192,193

Medicare patients

236

Services billed

675

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 orthopaedic trauma in Cleveland

Robert WetzelCleveland$574K
Nathan MeskoCleveland$228K
Joshua NaporaCleveland$69K
Lukas NystromCleveland$56K
Christopher MatsonCleveland$50K
Damien BillowCleveland$48K
Anokha PadubidriCleveland$47K
Cesar CereijoCleveland$39K
Nicholas RomeoCleveland$22K
Adam HirschfeldCleveland$13K

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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.

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