RxDoctor Payments Data

Keith Wapner

Orthopaedic Surgery · Phila, PANPI 1780616151

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $983,624 of the $1,238,351 with a category attached, or 79.4%. Stryker accounts for 95.2% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in PA 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.

$1,238,351in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 237 payments — averaging $5225.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Stryker$1.2M
  • Tyber Medical, LLC$33K
  • Novastep Inc.$16K
  • Cerapedics Inc.$9K
  • Medshape, Inc.$2K
  • Johnson & Johnson$149
  • plus $178 from 2 others
$89,985in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $5624.06 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.

  • Vilex LLC$84K
  • Stryker$6K
$30,513in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $30,513 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

  • Restor3d, Inc.$31K

What the payments were for

  • Royalty or licence$983,62479%
  • Consulting fees$201,35816%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$31,6253%
  • Travel & lodging$16,7531%
  • Food & beverage$4,9910%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Stryker(2 entities)190$1,178,296
Tyber Medical, LLC6$33,091
Novastep Inc.23$15,749
Cerapedics Inc.12$8,613
Medshape, Inc.2$2,275
Johnson & Johnson2$149
Trimed, Inc.1$115
Bsn Medical Inc1$63

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

$1,238,351 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,048 orthopaedic surgery providers in Pennsylvania.

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