Has Michael Vaccariello, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,857 in general payments to Michael Vaccariello, MD across 31 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Michael Vaccariello, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Michael Vaccariello, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Michael Vaccariello, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Ionia, MINPI 1710196761

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (35.3%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 48.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $1,934 and has fallen 73.1% since, to $521 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MI, where the typical reported total is $3,012.

$3,857in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $124.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$2K
Medwest Associates$2K
Zimmer Biomet$164
UCB, Inc.$27
Sanara Medtech Inc.$19
Heraeus Medical, LLC.$14
plus $12 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,36335%
Food & beverage$1,19131%
Education$1,30334%

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
Arthrex	18	$1,858
Medwest Associates	5	$1,763
Zimmer Biomet	2	$164
UCB, Inc.	2	$27
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$19
Heraeus Medical, LLC.	2	$14
Radius Health, 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.

How this compares

$3,857 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 829 orthopaedic surgery providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$40,547

Medicare patients

107

Services billed

838

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
Ibuprofen	74	$491
Alendronate Sodium	20	$328
Celecoxib	12	$185
Oxycodone Hcl	47	$167
Tramadol Hcl	13	$19

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Ionia

Asheesh BediAnn Arbor$9.4M
Jerome WiaterBeverly Hills$3.9M
Mark PintoChelsea$3.2M
Kyle AndersonBingham Farms$3.1M
Stephen BartolDetroit$2.6M
Jad KhalilSouthfield$1.9M
Jeffrey FischgrundSouthfield$1.8M
John BlahaAnn Arbor$1.5M
David MarkelSouthfield$1.5M
Christopher ChuinardTraverse City$1.4M

See the full list for Michigan →

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.

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