Has Nicholas Scarcella, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,141 in general payments to Nicholas Scarcella, MD across 84 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 Nicholas Scarcella, 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 Nicholas Scarcella, 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.

Nicholas Scarcella, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Cleveland, OHNPI 1043744659

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,787 of the $7,141 with a category attached, or 81.0%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 31.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $4,107 and has fallen 61.1% since, to $1,599 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery clinicians in OH, where the typical reported total is $10,094.

$7,141in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 84 payments — averaging $85.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$2K
Zimmer Biomet$2K
Smith+Nephew$2K
Biocomposites Inc$211
Medtronic$161
Johnson & Johnson$155
plus $373 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,34319%
Food & beverage$5,78781%
Entertainment$120%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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	38	$2,277
Zimmer Biomet	26	$2,124
Smith+Nephew	7	$1,841
Biocomposites Inc	2	$211
Medtronic	2	$161
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	3	$155
Onkos Surgical, Inc.	1	$125
Linkbio Corp	1	$73
Think Surgical, Inc.	1	$71
Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.	1	$60
BD	1	$32
Argentum Medical	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

$7,141 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 59 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$143,792

Medicare patients

248

Services billed

520

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
Oxycodone Hcl	38	$299
Meloxicam	101	$296
Doxycycline Hyclate	20	$196
Methylprednisolone	23	$175
Tramadol Hcl	33	$121
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	23	$109
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	13	$107
Baclofen	13	$75
Amoxicillin	38	$25
Prednisone	12	$18
Clindamycin Hcl	11	$17

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Cleveland

Viktor KrebsCleveland$7.5M
Nicolas PiuzziCleveland$1.2M
Michael BloomfieldCleveland$321K
Trevor MurrayCleveland$192K
James VoosCleveland$166K
Peter SuraceCleveland$146K
Kim StearnsCleveland$80K
John McLaughlinCleveland$79K
Mark DenzineCleveland$31K
Michael KolczunCleveland$22K

See the full list for Ohio →

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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