Michael Jacobs, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Baltimore, MDNPI 1225094352
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $208,839 of the $249,030 with a category attached, or 83.9%. Encore Medical, LP accounts for 99.1% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $65,701, 2.2 times the $29,562 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MD with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 84 payments — averaging $2964.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Encore Medical, LP$247K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Abbott$469
- Zimmer Biomet$249
- Stryker$197
- Medtronic$108
- plus $197 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$208,83984%
- Consulting fees$35,10014%
- Travel & lodging$2,9371%
- Food & beverage$2,1541%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Encore Medical, LP | 51 | $246,764 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $1,047 |
| Abbott | 8 | $469 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $249 |
| Stryker | 2 | $197 |
| Medtronic | 6 | $108 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $47 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $32 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $32 |
| Amgen | 1 | $26 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- DJO SURGICAL$116,246
- DJO Surgical Empowr Knee System$80,951
- DJO Surgical TaperFill Hip System$1,969
- Axium INS DRG IPG$154
- G7$133
- ACCOLADE$129
- Persona$116
- DJO Surgical Exprt Revision Hip$111
- Proclaim IPG$102
How this compares
$249,030 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 378 orthopaedic surgery providers in Maryland.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 32 | $224 |
| Methylprednisolone | 13 | $63 |
| Gabapentin | 12 | $32 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Baltimore
- Mark MyersonBaltimore$10.5M
- Anand MurthiBaltimore$3.7M
- Khaled KebaishBaltimore$3M
- Shawn StandardBaltimore$1.4M
- Paul SponsellerBaltimore$958K
- John HerzenbergBaltimore$746K
- Leslie MatthewsBaltimore$710K
- Rebecca CerratoBaltimore$575K
- Henry BoucherBaltimore$315K
- James WoodBaltimore$266K
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.