Jerome Wiater, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Beverly Hills, MINPI 1043292964
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $2,786,022 of the $3,949,785 with a category attached, or 70.5%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Ignite Orthopedics, LLC at 47.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,109,629, 8.6 times the $128,687 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MI 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.
Across 570 payments — averaging $6929.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Ignite Orthopedics, LLC$1.9M
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$1.2M
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$448K
- Smith+Nephew$361K
- Techmah Medical, LLC$50K
- Zimmer Biomet$26K
- plus $19K from 8 others
Across 104 payments — averaging $3103.23 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$305K
- Stryker$18K
Across 14 payments — averaging $101,822 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Ignite Orthopedics, LLC$1.4M
- Catalyst Orthoscience$7K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,786,02271%
- Consulting fees$543,25914%
- Travel & lodging$64,0952%
- Food & beverage$14,6370%
- Education$1,9890%
- Ownership interest$539,78314%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ignite Orthopedics, LLC | 44 | $1,864,849 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 50 | $1,180,665 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 255 | $448,006 |
| Smith+Nephew | 63 | $360,534 |
| Techmah Medical, LLC | 29 | $50,031 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 47 | $26,378 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 21 | $10,901 |
| Lima USA, Inc. | 23 | $3,255 |
| Pinnacle, Inc | 9 | $2,323 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 18 | $1,578 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 8 | $961 |
| Limacorporate S.p.a. | 1 | $155 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $131 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $18 |
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.
- INHANCE$1,120,849
- NA$600,542
- LCP$430,813
- VA-LCP$430,813
- Q-FIX$300,655
- Q-FIX Hip$86,331
- SmartSpace Shoulder$48,531
- Comprehensive Reverse$23,754
- Comprehensive Anatomic$21,354
- Comprehensive SRS$9,875
- Trabecular Metal (TM) Reverse$9,875
- Catalyst TSR$6,795
- INSTRUMENTS$3,071
- LCP PLATES & SCREWS$3,071
- RADIAL HEAD PROSTHESIS$3,071
- VA-LCP PLATES & SCREWS$3,071
- SMR$2,422
- DYNACORD$2,292
- Catalyst Total CSR$2,182
- Sidus Stem-Free Shoulder$2,000
How this compares
$3,949,785 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 829 orthopaedic surgery providers in Michigan.
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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Beverly Hills
- Patrick WiaterBeverly Hills$507K
- Asheesh BediAnn Arbor$9.4M
- Mark PintoChelsea$3.2M
- Kyle AndersonBingham Farms$3.1M
- Stephen BartolDetroit$2.6M
- Jad KhalilSouthfield$1.9M
- Jeffrey FischgrundSouthfield$1.8M
- John BlahaAnn Arbor$1.5M
- David MarkelSouthfield$1.5M
- Christopher ChuinardTraverse City$1.4M
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.