RxDoctor Payments Data

Marc Weise, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Pismo Beach, CANPI 1609843499

Payments from drug & device makers

$864in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 11 payments — averaging $78.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Zimmer Biomet$293
  • Stryker$203
  • Arthrex$150
  • Smith+Nephew$138
  • Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC$81

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$76689%
  • Education$9811%

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

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25

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
Zimmer Biomet3$293
Stryker3$203
Arthrex1$150
Smith+Nephew3$138
Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC1$81

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

$864 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$264,974
Medicare patients
483
Services billed
4,736

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Tranexamic Acid55$1,222
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen152$1,101
Celecoxib49$739
Gabapentin66$603
Tramadol Hcl76$484
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen62$418
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim98$342
Diclofenac Sodium12$257
Ibuprofen11$227
Amoxicillin55$212
Meloxicam31$184
Cephalexin28$95
Prednisone33$89
Trazodone Hcl14$27

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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