Has Michael Hellman, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $365,023 in general payments to Michael Hellman, MD across 409 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Michael Hellman, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Michael Hellman, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Michael Hellman, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Lees Summit, MONPI 1114214970

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $321,164 of the $365,023 with a category attached, or 88.0%. Medacta USA, Inc. accounts for 94.1% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MO 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.

$365,023in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 409 payments — averaging $892.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medacta USA, Inc.$343K
Zimmer Biomet$17K
Stryker$2K
Microport Orthopedics Inc$1K
Davol Inc.$707
Johnson & Johnson$187
plus $401 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$321,16488%
Travel & lodging$31,7309%
Food & beverage$12,1293%

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
Medacta USA, Inc.	290	$343,356
Zimmer Biomet	48	$17,340
Stryker	44	$1,562
Microport Orthopedics Inc	10	$1,470
Davol Inc.	6	$707
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	5	$187
BD	1	$164
Radius Health, Inc.	2	$138
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$47
Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC	1	$27
Vertex	1	$24

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.

GMK SPHERE$154,982
GMK Sphere Revision System$82,571
AMISTEM$34,376
QUADRA$19,100
Persona$3,095
ROSA$3,031
GMK REVISION$2,904
AMIStem H Femoral Stems$1,545
PRIMARY SHOULDER$1,257
MPO Medial Pivot Knee$1,254
GMK EFFICIENCY$1,050
ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$737
SPHERIKA$508
NextAR Hip$395
MAKO$286
INSIGNIA$141
ATTUNE$125
S-ROM$125
NEXTAR$125
Persona Revision$116

How this compares

$365,023 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 455 orthopaedic surgery providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$483,576

Medicare patients

792

Services billed

3,352

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
Oxycodone Hcl	448	$2,997
Hydromorphone Hcl	257	$1,725
Diclofenac Sodium	71	$1,088
Celecoxib	24	$504
Meloxicam	149	$346
Famotidine	41	$296
Doxycycline Hyclate	21	$202
Amoxicillin	223	$200
Cefadroxil	20	$195
Methylprednisolone	31	$190
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	13	$183
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	39	$163
Tramadol Hcl	46	$106
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	14	$101
Tizanidine Hcl	17	$68

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Lees Summit

Jeremy StattonLees Summit$457K
Matthew DaggettLees Summit$271K
Chase HobbsLees Summit$131K
Matthew SmithColumbia$2.9M
Jay KeenerSaint Louis$2.2M
John WatsonSaint Louis$1.7M
Peter ChalmersSaint Louis$603K
Katherine BurnsBridgeton$491K
Lionel MetzSaint Louis$428K
Jon CarlsonSaint Louis$354K

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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.

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