John Fritch, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Edgewood, KYNPI 1679960843
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 128 payments — averaging $197.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$8K
- Smith+Nephew$7K
- Arthrex$5K
- Legacy Ortho LLC$3K
- Medwest Associates$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$304
- plus $150 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$7,31429%
- Food & beverage$3,94016%
- Education$14,03756%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 46 | $7,591 |
| Smith+Nephew | 22 | $7,342 |
| Arthrex | 38 | $5,462 |
| Legacy Ortho LLC | 13 | $3,220 |
| Medwest Associates | 2 | $1,222 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $304 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $150 |
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.
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$3,137
- MAKO$2,682
- HIPCHECK$286
- TRIGEN InterTAN$258
- Persona$150
- GAMMA$143
- T2$130
- LCP$123
- TRIGEN Femoral (FAN/TAN/Meta Nail)$111
- ACCOLADE$101
How this compares
$25,291 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 359 | $2,266 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 56 | $1,740 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 218 | $1,194 |
| Meloxicam | 449 | $1,018 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 233 | $916 |
| Cefadroxil | 185 | $871 |
| Dexamethasone | 146 | $755 |
| Gabapentin | 245 | $747 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 161 | $518 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 67 | $469 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 50 | $435 |
| Methylprednisolone | 76 | $387 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 22 | $108 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 18 | $88 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 21 | $66 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Edgewood
- Jeffrey ChapekEdgewood$38K
- 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.