Joshua Steward, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Cleveland, OHNPI 1104353903
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 89 payments — averaging $93.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$6K
- Zimmer Biomet$673
- Orthalign Inc$169
- Smith+Nephew$167
- Biocomposites Inc$135
- Paragon 28, Inc.$123
- plus $663 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,01936%
- Food & beverage$5,31164%
- Entertainment$140%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 54 | $6,416 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 9 | $673 |
| Orthalign Inc | 2 | $169 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $167 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $135 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $122 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $85 |
| Vertex | 3 | $69 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $60 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $56 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $45 |
| Carbofix Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $43 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $43 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $35 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $22 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $21 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Argentum Medical | 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.
- MAKO$5,055
- Persona$265
- ACCOLADE$158
- ORTHALIGN PLUS$137
- Stimulan$135
- ROSA$130
- FIXOS$128
- T2$128
- Additive Orthopedics$123
- Da Vinci Surgical System$122
- NA$110
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$104
How this compares
$8,344 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 794 orthopaedic surgery providers in Ohio.
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 | 34 | $253 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 14 | $139 |
| Meloxicam | 44 | $105 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 36 | $95 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Cleveland
- Reuben GobezieCleveland$12.6M
- Wael BarsoumCleveland$8.9M
- Joseph IannottiCleveland$7.1M
- Anthony MiniaciCleveland$3.1M
- Mark FroimsonCleveland$2.9M
- Kenneth GreeneCleveland$2.6M
- Robert MolloyCleveland$2.3M
- Eric RicchettiCleveland$2.1M
- Thomas MrozCleveland$1.3M
- Robert OrrCleveland$715K
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.