RxDoctor Payments Data

Gregory Meloy

Orthopaedic Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1376838425

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — education (43.7%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC accounts for 67.7% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,240 and has fallen 86.0% since, to $174 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in PA, where the typical reported total is $3,243.

$2,745in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $161.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC$2K
  • Arthrex$272
  • Johnson & Johnson$262
  • Stryker$102
  • Zimmer Biomet$85
  • Lifenet Health$77
  • plus $87 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$85331%
  • Food & beverage$69225%
  • Education$1,20044%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$2,745 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 1,048 orthopaedic surgery providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$109,243
Medicare patients
261
Services billed
3,274

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Enoxaparin Sodium12$1,176
Diclofenac Sodium34$886
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen106$705
Meloxicam61$258
Mupirocin34$231
Tramadol Hcl69$174
Oxycodone Hcl27$115
Doxycycline Monohydrate17$100

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Pittsburgh

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