RxDoctor Payments Data

Jason Grassbaugh, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Tacoma, WANPI 1184697211

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,579in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 38 payments — averaging $120.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Stryker$3K
  • Summit Surgical Corp.$1K
  • Exactech, Inc.$140
  • Invictus Surgical Incorporated$100
  • Davol Inc.$86
  • Paragon 28, Inc.$33

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1,11124%
  • Food & beverage$2,26850%
  • Education$1,20026%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Stryker31$2,996
Summit Surgical Corp.2$1,224
Exactech, Inc.1$140
Invictus Surgical Incorporated2$100
Davol Inc.1$86
Paragon 28, Inc.1$33

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

$4,579 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 495 orthopaedic surgery providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$166,034
Medicare patients
261
Services billed
1,832

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
XareltoRivaroxaban18$9,419
Ibuprofen114$1,353
Oxycodone Hcl135$680
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron20$322
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen24$244
Meloxicam35$149
Mupirocin18$125
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl11$70
Tramadol Hcl12$45

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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