Jeffrey Hartzell, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Fort Wayne, INNPI 1245315183
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $21,750 of the $28,571 with a category attached, or 76.1%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 83.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $12,027 and has fallen 80.2% since, to $2,382 in 2025.
Across 67 payments — averaging $426.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$24K
- Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$3K
- Exactech, Inc.$565
- Advita Ortho, LLC$500
- Medacta USA, Inc.$147
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$129
- plus $66 from 3 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $2500.00 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.
- Exactech, Inc.$3K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$4,67416%
- Consulting fees$21,75076%
- Travel & lodging$2211%
- Food & beverage$1,9267%
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 | 45 | $23,727 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $3,437 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 7 | $565 |
| Advita Ortho, LLC | 1 | $500 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 2 | $147 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $129 |
| MF MED | 1 | $40 |
| Crossroads Orthopedics, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Biowick$7,250
- Juggerknot$7,250
- SpeedSnare$7,250
- Juggerknotless$4,480
- PD-Sports Medicine-New Product$3,500
- REVERSE SHOULDER$1,500
- SHOULDER IMPLANT$1,250
- RevoMotion$500
- Juggerknotless Soft Anchor$234
- TRULIANT$177
- ROSA-Knee$124
- OPTETRAK$111
- EQUINOXE$111
- Zilretta$110
- GMK SPHERE$106
- TAPESTRY$101
How this compares
$28,571 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 160 | $1,144 |
| Celecoxib | 42 | $1,033 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 46 | $521 |
| Cephalexin | 164 | $463 |
| Prednisone | 42 | $137 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 26 | $83 |
| Meloxicam | 22 | $81 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Fort Wayne
- John WilliamsFort Wayne$2.7M
- Alan McGeeFort Wayne$1.1M
- Micah SmithFort Wayne$674K
- Alan McGeeFort Wayne$135K
- Brandon HugginsFort Wayne$87K
- Christopher JohnsonFort Wayne$86K
- Michael LeeFort Wayne$42K
- Frank KolisekGreenwood$7.5M
- David FisherIndianapolis$5.9M
- Michael BerendIndianapolis$4M
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.