Kaitlyn Loesel
Louisville, KYNPI 1215622493
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $12,545 of the $15,486 with a category attached, or 81.0%. Stryker accounts for 64.3% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $8,320, 6.7 times the $1,250 reported in 2023.
Across 274 payments — averaging $56.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$10K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Smith+Nephew$755
- Blue Surgical LLC$720
- Arthrex$696
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$560
- plus $1K from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,38215%
- Food & beverage$12,54581%
- Education$5604%
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 | 187 | $9,954 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 25 | $1,642 |
| Smith+Nephew | 29 | $755 |
| Blue Surgical LLC | 11 | $720 |
| Arthrex | 7 | $696 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $560 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 3 | $248 |
| Amgen | 2 | $237 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $213 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $158 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $136 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 1 | $15 |
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.
- INBONE$1,970
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$1,291
- NA$721
- PROPHECY$494
- VARIAX$486
- ALLOFIBER$473
- Oasis$262
- Grafix$262
- ACTIS$239
- Novosorb BTM$238
- KRYSTEXXA$237
- EZOUT$175
- HOFFMANN$161
- MAXTORQUE$156
- EASYFUSE$156
- Stravix$148
- GRAFIX PL$147
- STRAVIX PL$147
- OASIS MICRO$147
- Exogen Ultrasound Bone Healing System$147
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.