Michael Freehill, MD
Sports Medicine · Stanford, CANPI 1205973898
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,084,183 of the $1,600,371 with a category attached, or 67.7%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 84.7% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $476,854, 5.8 times the $82,108 reported in 2019. Among sports medicine clinicians in CA 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 650 payments — averaging $2462.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$1.4M
- Stryker$171K
- Linvatec Corporation$37K
- Biorez, Inc.$9K
- Ossio Inc$9K
- Encore Medical, LP$9K
- plus $10K from 13 others
Across 23 payments — averaging $14,963 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.
- Linvatec Corporation$249K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$96K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,084,18368%
- Consulting fees$292,19418%
- Speaking & faculty fees$119,0917%
- Grants$8,7501%
- Travel & lodging$68,8134%
- Food & beverage$21,6001%
- Education$5,7410%
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 | 312 | $1,356,234 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 224 | $170,541 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 44 | $36,620 |
| Biorez, Inc. | 2 | $9,400 |
| Ossio Inc | 14 | $9,009 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $8,750 |
| Evolution Surgical, Inc | 13 | $5,886 |
| Xiros Inc | 16 | $1,558 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 10 | $866 |
| Zurimed Technologies Inc. | 2 | $519 |
| Aesculap Biologics, LLC | 1 | $209 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $182 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $139 |
| Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc. | 1 | $128 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $106 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $97 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 2 | $61 |
| Integrity Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Ascension Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
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.
- Healicoil$623,181
- AETOS Shoulder System$266,374
- Biceptor$210,716
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$118,284
- Coblation$105,309
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$52,017
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$47,813
- BioBrace 23mm$42,260
- Regeneten$35,885
- Accu-pass$30,909
- REUNION$29,184
- Q-FIX$23,533
- BIORAPTOR$20,869
- HEALICOIL REGENESORB$19,633
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$17,844
- TORNIER PERFORM REVERSED GLENOID$17,810
- Arthro-Pierce$16,997
- MICRORAPTOR REGENESORB$14,283
- TORNIER PERFORM ANATOMIC AUGMENTED GLENOID$13,780
- TORNIER PERFORM REVERSED AUGMENTED GLENOID$13,780
How this compares
$1,600,371 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 662 sports medicine providers in California.
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.
Other sports medicine in Stanford
- Seth ShermanStanford$1.1M
- Joseph DonahueStanford$363K
- Tianyi Tim WangStanford$141K
- Neal ElattracheLos Angeles$51M
- Nathaniel CohenLos Gatos$6.4M
- Thomas KnappSanta Monica$2.5M
- Allan MishraMenlo Park$1.5M
- Heinz Hoeneckela Jolla$1.4M
- Stephan YacoubianBurbank$1M
- Stephen Snydervan Nuys$922K
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.