RxDoctor Payments Data

Matthew Steffes, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Dearborn, MINPI 1275633596

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,459in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 42 payments — averaging $34.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Elite Orthopedics, LLC$386
  • Smith+Nephew$318
  • Stryker$303
  • Arthrex$242
  • Johnson & Johnson$82
  • Innovation Technologies Inc$63
  • plus $67 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,459100%

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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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.

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

$1,459 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 829 orthopaedic surgery providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$202,668
Medicare patients
289
Services billed
8,668

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen211$1,885
Cephalexin12$498
Methylprednisolone40$294
Meloxicam107$245
Diclofenac Sodium18$222
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine29$182
Ibuprofen27$172
Celecoxib15$150
Tramadol Hcl60$145
Amoxicillin32$108
Mupirocin13$79
Oxycodone Hcl16$54

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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