Kenneth Urish
Orthopaedic Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1063670065
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (51.8%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Smith+Nephew accounts for 89.2% 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.
Across 214 payments — averaging $969.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$185K
- Onkos Surgical, Inc.$19K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$2K
- Innovation Technologies Inc$236
- Stryker$193
- Zimmer Biomet$144
- plus $150 from 2 others
Across 19 payments — averaging $6774.38 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.
- Smith+Nephew$73K
- Onkos Surgical, Inc.$56K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$107,46352%
- Speaking & faculty fees$73,47935%
- Travel & lodging$18,8159%
- Food & beverage$7,7354%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 200 | $185,152 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 5 | $19,417 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $2,200 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $236 |
| Stryker | 2 | $193 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $144 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $133 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Journey II$205,042
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$139,529
- Legion Revision$47,572
- OR3O Dual Mobility$21,253
- ELEOS LIMB SALVAGE SYSTEM$19,317
- Engage Partial Knee System$17,284
- RI.HIP NAVIGATION$13,590
- Tandem$10,016
- NAVIO$8,700
- Journey II BCS$7,334
- Journey II CR$7,200
- CORI$7,139
- Legion$6,325
- Anthology$6,000
- JOURNEY$5,869
- KNEE3 Software$5,400
- POLARSTEM$4,804
- BIRMINGHAM HIP$4,800
- JOURNEY II UK$4,149
- HIP7$1,764
How this compares
$207,491 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,048 orthopaedic surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 111 | $3,266 |
| Meloxicam | 130 | $689 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 13 | $407 |
| Naproxen | 36 | $263 |
| Mupirocin | 39 | $187 |
| Methylprednisolone | 20 | $167 |
| Cephalexin | 63 | $161 |
| Ibuprofen | 14 | $89 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 21 | $71 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 15 | $64 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 15 | $21 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Pittsburgh
- Edward WestrickPittsburgh$938K
- Timothy SauberPittsburgh$373K
- Eric YakishPittsburgh$278K
- Gary SchmidtPittsburgh$256K
- Ivan TarkinPittsburgh$243K
- Anthony DigioiaPittsburgh$217K
- William HozackBensalem$10.6M
- Jess LonnerBryn Mawr$7.8M
- Gerald WilliamsBryn Mawr$6.8M
- Mark LazarusBensalem$6.4M
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.