Jeremy Somerson, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Seattle, WANPI 1972815041
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (55.6%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Exactech, Inc. accounts for 67.8% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $18,752, 4.4 times the $4,283 reported in 2019.
Across 97 payments — averaging $284.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Exactech, Inc.$19K
- Medinc Of Texas$5K
- Stryker$1K
- Smith+Nephew$993
- Encore Medical, LP$578
- FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc$499
- plus $922 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$15,37156%
- Travel & lodging$3,16211%
- Food & beverage$4,87518%
- Education$4,21415%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Exactech, Inc. | 19 | $18,738 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 12 | $4,627 |
| Stryker | 24 | $1,265 |
| Smith+Nephew | 20 | $993 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 4 | $578 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 3 | $499 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $239 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $158 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $124 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $93 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $66 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $59 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $27 |
| Amgen | 1 | $23 |
| Ossio Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $19 |
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- EQUINOXE$18,705
- EXACTECHGPS$957
- DJO SURGICAL$531
- Q-FIX$414
- Healicoil$414
- ULTRABUTTON$273
- MAKO$251
- Irrisept$158
- NA$149
- MULTIFIX$141
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$126
- Geminus$124
- Align$124
- IJS$124
- Implate$124
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$122
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$121
How this compares
$27,623 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 495 orthopaedic surgery providers in Washington.
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 | 26 | $242 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 18 | $49 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Seattle
- James PritchettSeattle$6.4M
- James CrutcherSeattle$3.5M
- Keith MayoSeattle$3.1M
- Matthew SaltzmanSeattle$1.8M
- Burt YaszaySeattle$1.3M
- Sean ToomeySeattle$1.2M
- Robert HartSeattle$942K
- Jeffrey RohSeattle$604K
- Michael BrageSeattle$496K
- Daniel SchwartzSeattle$424K
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.