Has Jeffrey Yergler, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $599,631 in general payments to Jeffrey Yergler, MD across 422 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Jeffrey Yergler, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Jeffrey Yergler, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Jeffrey Yergler, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · South Bend, INNPI 1750360079

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $549,551 of the $599,631 with a category attached, or 91.6%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Canary Medical USA LLC at 55.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $218,419 and has fallen 92.9% since, to $15,463 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in IN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$599,631in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 422 payments — averaging $1420.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Canary Medical USA LLC$335K
Zimmer Biomet$264K
Encore Medical, LP$163
Next Science LLC$95
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$89
Linvatec Corporation$70
plus $48 from 3 others

$494,128in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 68 payments — averaging $7266.60 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.

Zimmer Biomet$340K
Canary Medical USA LLC$154K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$549,55192%
Travel & lodging$19,5923%
Food & beverage$7,3991%
Education$23,0894%

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
Canary Medical USA LLC	14	$335,249
Zimmer Biomet	398	$263,918
Encore Medical, LP	1	$163
Next Science LLC	2	$95
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$89
Linvatec Corporation	2	$70
United Imaging Healthcare North America LLC	1	$21
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$14
Stryker	1	$13

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

$599,631 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 400 orthopaedic surgery providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$504,444

Medicare patients

817

Services billed

15,762

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	357	$4,190
Celecoxib	151	$3,448
Diclofenac Sodium	137	$1,462
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	77	$804
Methylprednisolone	100	$568
Amoxicillin	434	$552
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	53	$356
Promethazine Hcl	13	$144
Ondansetron Hcl	19	$136
Clindamycin Hcl	63	$133
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	12	$109
Tramadol Hcl	43	$105
Cephalexin	38	$82
Meloxicam	42	$58
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	22	$58

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in South Bend

Adam CienSouth Bend$144K
Maxwell WinklerSouth Bend$37K
Patrick WarmothSouth Bend$31K
Thomas AkreSouth Bend$30K
Ryan O'RourkeSouth Bend$29K
Frank KolisekGreenwood$7.5M
David FisherIndianapolis$5.9M
Michael BerendIndianapolis$4M
John WilliamsFort Wayne$2.7M
Sanford KunkelIndianapolis$1.9M

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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.

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