Michael Blatter, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1659781763
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (35.6%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 26.1% of the total.
Across 112 payments — averaging $221.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$6K
- Arthrex$3K
- Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.$3K
- Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc.$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- Encore Medical, LP$2K
- plus $6K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,50010%
- Travel & lodging$8,83836%
- Food & beverage$5,13521%
- Education$8,33034%
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 | 39 | $6,475 |
| Arthrex | 12 | $2,850 |
| Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc. | 5 | $2,717 |
| Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $2,418 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 8 | $2,295 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 2 | $1,615 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $1,266 |
| Active Medical, LLC | 2 | $1,216 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 1 | $1,100 |
| Acumed LLC | 2 | $971 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 8 | $479 |
| Moximed, Inc | 5 | $309 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 2 | $226 |
| Think Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $196 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $173 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| Solventum Corporation | 4 | $96 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $83 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $50 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $42 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $13 |
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.
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$1,938
- TORNIER PERFORM REVERSED GLENOID$1,298
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$1,156
- MAKO$1,145
- Acu-Loc Wrist Plating System$881
- Hand Fracture System$881
- Osteotomy System$881
- Acutrak Headless Compression Screw System$881
- Persona$862
- IM NAILS$224
- AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$141
- MISHA KNEE SYSTEM, SMALL, LEFT$131
- NA$125
- TMINI Miniature Robotic System$125
- ALLOGRAFT TISSUE$116
- LIVATEC KNEE PRESERVATION SYSTEM$110
- TRIATHLON$106
- ACCOLADE$106
How this compares
$24,803 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 221 orthopaedic surgery providers in Utah.
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 | 12 | $608 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Salt Lake City
- Aaron HofmannSalt Lake City$10.7M
- Jeremy GilillandSalt Lake City$2.9M
- Robert TashjianSalt Lake City$2.6M
- Jeffrey JacksonSalt Lake City$2.3M
- Thomas HigginsSalt Lake City$1.2M
- Christopher MartinSalt Lake City$1.2M
- Christopher PeltSalt Lake City$432K
- Robert BurksSalt Lake City$355K
- Charles SaltzmanSalt Lake City$254K
- Stephen AokiSalt Lake City$239K
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.