Jacob Markel, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Grand Rapids, MINPI 1689133522
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 107 payments — averaging $90.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$6K
- Alpha Orthopedic Systems$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$331
- Kerecis Limited$226
- Zimmer Biomet$205
- Bone Support Inc.$187
- plus $351 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,90620%
- Food & beverage$6,09963%
- Education$1,64417%
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 | 72 | $5,783 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 13 | $2,567 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $331 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $226 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $205 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 2 | $187 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $131 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $102 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $47 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $32 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Davol Inc. | 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.
- SALVATION$1,464
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$902
- INFINITY$498
- INBONE$387
- ORTHOLOC 3DI$336
- INFINITY ADAPTIS$294
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$226
- N/A$173
- VARIAX$172
- PRO$170
- PROSTEP MICA$161
- VALOR$160
- INVISION$160
- PROPHECY$160
- PANGEA$154
- CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$154
- CERAMENT G$154
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$131
- AXSOS$120
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$116
How this compares
$9,649 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 829 orthopaedic surgery providers in Michigan.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 110 | $855 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 115 | $429 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 105 | $196 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 22 | $151 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Grand Rapids
- Donald BohayGrand Rapids$1.2M
- Travis MengeGrand Rapids$317K
- Dominic PelleGrand Rapids$271K
- Kory JohnsonGrand Rapids$154K
- Asheesh BediAnn Arbor$9.4M
- Jerome WiaterBeverly Hills$5.7M
- Jad KhalilSouthfield$3.7M
- Mark PintoChelsea$3.2M
- Kyle AndersonBingham Farms$3.1M
- Stephen BartolDetroit$2.6M
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.