James Baker
Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Louisville, KYNPI 1346603321
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 365 payments — averaging $548.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$194K
- Stryker$3K
- Bone Support Inc.$486
- Smith+Nephew$369
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$362
- UOC USA Inc$224
- plus $1K from 24 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $18,452 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.
- Canary Medical USA LLC$18K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,9455%
- Travel & lodging$26,33021%
- Food & beverage$16,39313%
- Education$74,96761%
- Other$140%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 248 | $193,878 |
| Stryker | 51 | $3,394 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 4 | $486 |
| Smith+Nephew | 12 | $369 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 3 | $362 |
| UOC USA Inc | 2 | $224 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $175 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $171 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $164 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $121 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $100 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $61 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Vertex | 2 | $57 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 3 | $51 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $48 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 1 | $29 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $28 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $23 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $23 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Orthalign Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Next Science LLC | 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.
- Arcos$34,397
- G7$26,172
- Persona$22,943
- ROSA$20,477
- Oxford$7,381
- TAPESTRY$5,750
- mymobility Platform$2,982
- NCB$2,625
- Affixus$1,635
- MAKO$985
- Avenir$800
- Kerecis SurgiClose$700
- Avitus Bone Harvester$453
- ACCOLADE$447
- CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$400
- CERAMENT G$400
- INBONE$344
- Geminus$317
- Align$317
- IJS$317
How this compares
Too few adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Kentuckyto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Minocycline Hcl | 38 | $734 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 61 | $560 |
| Pregabalin | 11 | $235 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 44 | $228 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 58 | $135 |
| Meloxicam | 26 | $82 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 12 | $50 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Louisville
- Samrath BhimaniLouisville$10K
- Stephen DuncanLexington$1.2M
- Saul FredricksonEdgewood$34K
- David WaespeGeorgetown$8K
- Prodromos VervereliTaylorsville$1K
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.