Glenn Lipton, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Pottstown, PANPI 1861431504
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $2,049 of the $3,191 with a category attached, or 64.2%. Liberty Surgical Inc. accounts for 80.7% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $1,739 and has fallen 96.2% since, to $66 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in PA, where the typical reported total is $3,243.
Across 22 payments — averaging $145.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Liberty Surgical Inc.$3K
- Arthrex$365
- Zimmer Biomet$204
- Smith+Nephew$31
- Medline Industries LP$17
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$80125%
- Food & beverage$34111%
- Education$2,04964%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Liberty Surgical Inc. | 3 | $2,574 |
| Arthrex | 13 | $365 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $204 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $31 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Knees Product Portfolio$123
- Hips-None$123
How this compares
$3,191 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 1,048 orthopaedic surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 195 | $6,099 |
| Celecoxib | 100 | $1,733 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 57 | $473 |
| Meloxicam | 206 | $347 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 40 | $189 |
| Prednisone | 47 | $178 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $39 |
| Famotidine | 12 | $27 |
| Diazepam | 16 | $7 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Pottstown
- William HozackBensalem$10.6M
- Jess LonnerBryn Mawr$7.8M
- Gerald WilliamsBryn Mawr$6.8M
- Mark LazarusBensalem$6.4M
- John FenlinPhiladelphia$5.9M
- Peter SharkeyKing Of Prussia$5.7M
- Alexander VaccaroPhiladelphia$4.5M
- Selene ParekhBensalem$4.5M
- Joseph AbboudPhiladelphia$3.9M
- Jonathan GarinoMalvern$3.8M
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.