Howard Freedberg, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Bartlett, ILNPI 1467508846
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 44.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,344 and has fallen 83.5% since, to $388 in 2025.
Across 71 payments — averaging $72.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$2K
- Arthrex$2K
- ERMI LLC$207
- Medwest Associates$150
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$134
- Vericel Corporation$87
- plus $563 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,21743%
- Food & beverage$2,92457%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 15 | $2,304 |
| Arthrex | 16 | $1,696 |
| ERMI LLC | 4 | $207 |
| Medwest Associates | 1 | $150 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 4 | $134 |
| Vericel Corporation | 4 | $87 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 4 | $80 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $73 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $55 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $51 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $44 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $38 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $18 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Vertex | 1 | $17 |
| Orthosensor Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $12 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 1 | $8 |
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
$5,140 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 844 orthopaedic surgery providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 55 | $279 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Bartlett
- Peter BonuttiEffingham$24.3M
- Steven HaddadGlenview$12.6M
- Aaron RosenbergChicago$12.4M
- Treg BrownHerrin$6.6M
- Wayne GoldsteinMorton Grove$4.9M
- Steven ChudikWestmont$4.1M
- Matthew SquireAurora$2.9M
- David ManningBurr Ridge$2.3M
- Ritesh ShahMorton Grove$2.3M
- Anish KadakiaChicago$2.1M
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.