Jarod Richards, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Shepherdsville, KYNPI 1497259345
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $22,500 of the $36,693 with a category attached, or 61.3%. Arthrex accounts for 63.8% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $23,235 and has fallen 88.4% since, to $2,704 in 2025.
Across 116 payments — averaging $316.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$23K
- Stryker$5K
- Smith+Nephew$5K
- Blue Surgical LLC$925
- Joint Restoration Foundation, Inc.$667
- Alpha Orthopedic Systems$524
- plus $732 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$22,50061%
- Travel & lodging$6,33117%
- Food & beverage$4,91213%
- Education$2,9508%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 29 | $23,417 |
| Stryker | 35 | $5,314 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $5,115 |
| Blue Surgical LLC | 12 | $925 |
| Joint Restoration Foundation, Inc. | 8 | $667 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 5 | $524 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 8 | $229 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 2 | $128 |
| Community Blood Center | 1 | $106 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $47 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $42 |
| Vertex | 2 | $40 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $27 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $27 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $11 |
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.
- MAKO$3,123
- ICONIX$704
- INSPACE$295
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$241
- ALPHAVENT$174
- REUNION$130
- NANOTACK FLEX$130
- NA$130
- SAMURAI$130
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$108
How this compares
$36,693 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 322 orthopaedic surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ibuprofen | 25 | $163 |
| Meloxicam | 22 | $117 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 16 | $115 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 23 | $88 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 18 | $73 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 13 | $68 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Shepherdsville
- Arthur MalkaniLouisville$9.6M
- Jonathan YerasimidesLouisville$4.3M
- John LewisLouisville$1.5M
- Akbar NawabLouisville$1M
- Samer HasanCrestview Hills$976K
- Phillip SingerBowling Green$816K
- Brent MorrisLexington$815K
- Joseph GreeneLouisville$581K
- Raymond GreiweFlorence$546K
- Clint HillPaducah$516K
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.