RxDoctor Payments Data

Jon Warner, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Boston, MANPI 1356326441

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $4,435,660 of the $5,421,548 with a category attached, or 81.8%. Stryker accounts for 98.5% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,006,684, 5.4 times the $375,017 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MA 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.

$5,421,548in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 827 payments — averaging $6555.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Stryker$5.3M
  • Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$41K
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$30K
  • Arthrex$7K
  • Kairos Surgical Inc$2K
  • Synthes GmbH$500
  • plus $2K from 12 others
$18,940in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $1114.13 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.

  • Stryker$19K
$83,727in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $83,727 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

  • Zurimed Technologies Inc.$84K

What the payments were for

  • Royalty or licence$4,435,66082%
  • Consulting fees$602,01611%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$309,5896%
  • Travel & lodging$57,2021%
  • Food & beverage$15,0870%
  • Education$1,9940%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$5,421,548 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 542 orthopaedic surgery providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$181,617
Medicare patients
314
Services billed
710

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 Boston

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