Janos Ertl, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Carmel, INNPI 1558430587
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (51.2%), consulting fees and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bone Support Inc. at 47.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $805 and has fallen 97.5% since, to $20 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in IN, where the typical reported total is $4,533.
Across 45 payments — averaging $34.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bone Support Inc.$750
- Smith+Nephew$481
- Zimmer Biomet$136
- KCI USA, Inc.$80
- Johnson & Johnson$61
- Solventum Corporation$42
- plus $22 from 2 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $4000.00 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.
- Bone Support Inc.$4K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$75048%
- Food & beverage$80451%
- Education$171%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bone Support Inc. | 2 | $750 |
| Smith+Nephew | 32 | $481 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $136 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 4 | $80 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $61 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $42 |
| Stryker | 1 | $17 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $5 |
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
$1,572 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 400 orthopaedic surgery providers in Indiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 36 | $336 |
| Cephalexin | 20 | $157 |
| Ibuprofen | 18 | $153 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 11 | $70 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Carmel
- Jeffery PiersonCarmel$237K
- Philip HuangCarmel$154K
- Robert MalinzakCarmel$110K
- Zachary NapierCarmel$87K
- Jason YeCarmel$83K
- Joseph HareCarmel$56K
- Stephen JacobsenCarmel$48K
- Jeffrey KonopkaCarmel$44K
- Bryan SaltzmanCarmel$29K
- Frank KolisekGreenwood$7.5M
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.