Justin Fritz, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Columbia, MONPI 1770010969
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 131 payments — averaging $228.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$11K
- Globus Medical$11K
- Smith+Nephew$4K
- Stryker$2K
- Pylant Medical$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$308
- plus $791 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,50022%
- Grants$10,00033%
- Travel & lodging$6,63622%
- Food & beverage$5,58719%
- Education$1,2004%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 10 | $10,942 |
| Globus Medical | 40 | $10,907 |
| Smith+Nephew | 33 | $3,798 |
| Stryker | 21 | $1,606 |
| Pylant Medical | 6 | $1,571 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $308 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $150 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $136 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 1 | $122 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $68 |
| Carbofix Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $67 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $58 |
| Vertex | 2 | $52 |
| Axogen | 1 | $50 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Autobahn$7,349
- EVOS$2,415
- Anthem$2,180
- TRIGEN InterTAN$1,284
- PRO$628
- Conquest FN$476
- A.L.P.S.$272
- AXSOS$247
- A/R Femoral Nail$175
- TROCH NAIL$168
- Stimulan$150
- MAVERICK$147
- TRIGEN$144
- SPATIAL FRAME$144
- T2 ALPHA$138
- EXTERNAL FIXATION$136
- Ankle Fracture System$136
- EVO Antegrade$136
- Distal Femur Plate System$131
- NA$118
How this compares
$29,923 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 455 orthopaedic surgery providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ibuprofen | 18 | $180 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 22 | $135 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Columbia
- Matthew SmithColumbia$4M
- Kurt BormannColumbia$203K
- Bhajanjit BalColumbia$171K
- Mauricio KfuriColumbia$65K
- Jay KeenerSaint Louis$2.2M
- John WatsonSaint Louis$1.7M
- Alexandra StrongN Kansas City$1.1M
- Thomas McCormackKansas City$852K
- Michael SnyderJefferson City$676K
- Peter ChalmersSaint Louis$674K
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.