Jeffrey Wera, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Florence, KYNPI 1700273356
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 19 payments — averaging $590.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$5K
- Legacy Ortho LLC$2K
- Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC$1K
- Liberty Surgical Inc.$1K
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$645
- Axogen$229
- plus $610 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3513%
- Grants$5,00045%
- Food & beverage$1,13310%
- Education$4,73242%
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 | 1 | $5,000 |
| Legacy Ortho LLC | 2 | $2,400 |
| Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC | 1 | $1,200 |
| Liberty Surgical Inc. | 1 | $1,132 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 3 | $645 |
| Axogen | 1 | $229 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $206 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $128 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $100 |
| Stryker | 1 | $61 |
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.
- Geminus$645
- Align$645
- IJS$645
- Implate$645
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$229
- EVOS WRIST$127
- AccelStim$115
How this compares
$11,216 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 109 | $266 |
| Meloxicam | 69 | $198 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 91 | $176 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 15 | $149 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 15 | $148 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 18 | $47 |
| Prednisone | 24 | $37 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 14 | $29 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Florence
- Raymond GreiweFlorence$554K
- Arthur MalkaniLouisville$9.9M
- Jonathan YerasimidesLouisville$4.3M
- John LewisLouisville$1.6M
- Samer HasanCrestview Hills$1.3M
- Akbar NawabLouisville$1M
- Brent MorrisLexington$901K
- Phillip SingerBowling Green$816K
- Clint HillPaducah$698K
- Paul MatuszewskiLexington$634K
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.