Joel Strehl, DO
Surgery · Traverse City, MINPI 1780971614
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $112,134 of the $170,321 with a category attached, or 65.8%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by TELA Bio, Inc. at 52.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $69,476 and has fallen 54.5% since, to $31,608 in 2025. Among 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 295 payments — averaging $577.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- TELA Bio, Inc.$90K
- Arthrex$72K
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- AbbVie$2K
- Smith+Nephew$1K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$756
- plus $2K from 11 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $34,350 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.
- TELA Bio, Inc.$34K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$112,13466%
- Speaking & faculty fees$12,0007%
- Travel & lodging$32,44219%
- Food & beverage$12,7457%
- Education$1,0001%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 105 | $89,667 |
| Arthrex | 95 | $72,304 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 16 | $2,116 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 20 | $2,104 |
| Smith+Nephew | 16 | $1,426 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 13 | $756 |
| Davol Inc. | 7 | $651 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 6 | $472 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 7 | $233 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $214 |
| Zak Ortho | 1 | $130 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $115 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $54 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $24 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$82,142
- OviTex 2S$5,373
- CAPITAL CONSUMABLES CONSUMABLES TUBING OUTFLOW$2,563
- CAPITAL CONSUMABLES CONSUMABLES BLADES & BURRS SPECIALTY$2,563
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,903
- STRATTICE$997
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$583
- PICO 7 Single Use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy$351
- PerClot$262
- ARISTA$260
- BOTOX$224
- RENASYS TOUCH$219
- PICO 14$219
- RENASYS GO v2 HOME$219
- AIRSEAL$214
- VISICLEAR$214
- CONMED HANDHELD INSTRUMENTS$214
- PICO$196
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$162
- SYNECOR Biomaterial$145
How this compares
$170,321 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,081 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 37 | $36 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Traverse City
- Robert BartlettAnn Arbor$859K
- Matthew FourmanMonroe$492K
- Bruce McIntoshRochester Hills$435K
- Jon SchramZeeland$261K
- Eric DaviesBrighton$258K
- Robert LyonsYpsilanti$196K
- John LimClinton Township$141K
- Bellal JosephDetroit$114K
- Anthony IaccoBeverly Hills$114K
- Michael JacobsNovi$106K
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.