Michael Scarcella, MD
Sports Medicine · Cleveland, OHNPI 1396062576
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $25,267 of the $31,366 with a category attached, or 80.6%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 69.5% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $12,158 and has fallen 87.3% since, to $1,549 in 2025. Among sports medicine clinicians in OH 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 74 payments — averaging $423.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$22K
- Arthrex$6K
- DJO, LLC$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$651
- Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc.$618
- Bioventus LLC$137
- plus $369 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,2504%
- Travel & lodging$2,2227%
- Food & beverage$2,6278%
- Education$25,26781%
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 | 4 | $21,791 |
| Arthrex | 27 | $6,256 |
| DJO, LLC | 10 | $1,543 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $651 |
| Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc. | 5 | $618 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $137 |
| Vericel Corporation | 5 | $132 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $84 |
| Stryker | 2 | $80 |
| Hydrocision, Inc. | 3 | $73 |
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.
- DVT VENAPRO$1,023
- DYNACORD$284
- TRUESPAN ORTHOCORD$255
- MILAGRO$145
- MITEK CRUCIATE+$145
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$112
- ULTRABUTTON$112
- PROCARE$112
How this compares
$31,366 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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
- Michael SalataCleveland$212K
- Mark SchickendantzCleveland$83K
- Sercan YalcinCleveland$37K
- 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.