Michael Salata, MD
Sports Medicine · Cleveland, OHNPI 1972728400
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $182,450 of the $211,652 with a category attached, or 86.2%. Stryker accounts for 99.1% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $60,340, more than ten times the $5,189 reported in 2019. Among sports medicine clinicians in OH 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 232 payments — averaging $912.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$210K
- Royal Biologics, Inc.$483
- Johnson & Johnson$438
- Smith+Nephew$392
- DJO, LLC$282
- Vericel Corporation$117
- plus $220 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$182,45086%
- Travel & lodging$21,76410%
- Food & beverage$7,4394%
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 | 202 | $209,720 |
| Royal Biologics, Inc. | 1 | $483 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $438 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $392 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $282 |
| Vericel Corporation | 4 | $117 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $74 |
| Gilead | 3 | $69 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $42 |
| Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $8 |
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.
- NA$55,154
- SALVATION$32,484
- INSIGNIA$29,775
- SHARPSHOOTER$13,350
- MAKO$13,300
- HIPCHECK$13,277
- INSPACE$12,119
- OMEGA$11,750
- NANOTACK FLEX$10,805
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$10,425
- 1788$10,425
- ICONIX$9,906
- PIVOT PORTAL ENTRY KIT$4,950
- REUNION$4,750
- FORMULA$4,500
- CONQUEST SERIES$4,050
- CROSSFIRE$4,050
- CROSSFLOW$4,050
- FLOSTEADY$2,700
- HIPMAP$2,250
How this compares
$211,652 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 278 sports medicine 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.
Other sports medicine in Cleveland
- Paul SaluanCleveland$367K
- Dominic KingCleveland$233K
- Mark SchickendantzCleveland$83K
- Sercan YalcinCleveland$37K
- Michael ScarcellaCleveland$31K
- Jensen KolaczkoCleveland$29K
- David FlaniganColumbus$915K
- Thomas EllisDublin$427K
- Vincent SammarcoCincinnati$361K
- Jovan LaskovskiAkron$337K
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.