Michael Palmer, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Liberty Township, OHNPI 1144451394
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 99 payments — averaging $129.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$4K
- Arthrex$4K
- Legacy Ortho LLC$3K
- Stryker$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$587
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$212
- plus $480 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1891%
- Travel & lodging$5,64944%
- Food & beverage$4,44735%
- Education$2,50120%
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 | 29 | $4,341 |
| Arthrex | 35 | $3,527 |
| Legacy Ortho LLC | 6 | $2,564 |
| Stryker | 11 | $1,075 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 7 | $587 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $212 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $170 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $116 |
| Straumann USA LLC | 1 | $105 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $71 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- OR3O Dual Mobility$3,005
- RI.HIP NAVIGATION$3,005
- JOURNEY$2,850
- POLARSTEM$1,678
- Tandem$1,172
- HIP ARTHROSCOPY ACCESS & INSTRUMENTATION SET$482
- INSPACE$175
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$144
- ROSA$141
- Persona$141
- REUNION$136
- STAR$135
- TRIATHLON$135
- Zilretta$128
- HEALICOIL REGENESORB$125
- Firstpass$125
- REGENETEN Shoulder$125
- Journey II$122
- EXPAREL$116
- SPATIAL FRAME$103
How this compares
$12,786 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 794 orthopaedic surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tizanidine Hcl | 49 | $429 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 56 | $383 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 12 | $204 |
| Meloxicam | 78 | $165 |
| Methylprednisolone | 28 | $114 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 17 | $84 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $36 |
| Amoxicillin | 46 | $32 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 11 | $15 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Liberty Township
- Reuben GobezieCleveland$12.6M
- Brad PichaIndependence$12.3M
- Gregory BerletWorthington$9.9M
- Wael BarsoumCleveland$8.9M
- Brian CohenChillicothe$8.9M
- Joseph IannottiCleveland$7.1M
- John SontichYoungstown$3.6M
- Anthony MiniaciCleveland$3.1M
- Mark FroimsonCleveland$2.9M
- David WelkerMiamisburg$2.8M
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.