Michael Makowski
Orthopaedic Trauma · Akron, OHNPI 1932630951
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (47.9%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 77.2% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $10,400, 7.8 times the $1,325 reported in 2019.
Across 223 payments — averaging $108.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$19K
- Arthrex$2K
- Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc.$1K
- Innovation Technologies Inc$567
- Novus Surgical Consultants$449
- Si-bone, Inc.$373
- plus $955 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$11,21346%
- Food & beverage$11,60548%
- Education$1,4266%
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 | 187 | $18,709 |
| Arthrex | 13 | $1,727 |
| Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc. | 2 | $1,465 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 5 | $567 |
| Novus Surgical Consultants | 5 | $449 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $373 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $324 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $176 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $158 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $105 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $55 |
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.
- PRO$7,668
- GAMMA$1,694
- MAKO$1,318
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$581
- PANGEA$481
- VARIAX$461
- Irrisept$459
- T2 ALPHA$440
- PROFYLE$356
- HOFFMANN$307
- T2$290
- PRECICE Intramedullary Limb Lengthening System$205
- Anthem$205
- Autobahn$205
- TFN-Advance$176
- SPS$162
- AXSOS$160
- Stimulan$158
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS TRAUMA ANKLE FRACTURE$148
- IGNITE$142
How this compares
$24,244 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 38 orthopaedic trauma providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 12 | $138 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 33 | $106 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic trauma in Akron
- Eric MillerAkron$8K
- Nicholas DinicolaAkron$1K
- Henry SagiCincinnati$1.4M
- Robert WetzelCleveland$574K
- George OchenjeleCleveland$344K
- Steven HamanLima$289K
- Nathan MeskoCleveland$228K
- Michael BeltranCincinnati$94K
- Joshua NaporaCleveland$69K
- Lukas NystromCleveland$56K
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.