Nicholas Wallace, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Ann Arbor, MINPI 1780033928
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 63 payments — averaging $191.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$7K
- Medtronic$2K
- Globus Medical$1K
- Abbott$674
- Arthrex$468
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$424
- plus $622 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$9,24276%
- Food & beverage$2,41920%
- Education$4244%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 20 | $6,822 |
| Medtronic | 20 | $1,934 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $1,141 |
| Abbott | 6 | $674 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $468 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $424 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 2 | $384 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $149 |
| Amgen | 2 | $30 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $21 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Other - Miscellaneous$5,487
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$1,238
- CREO$557
- RISE$557
- PROCLAIM$476
- mild Device Kit$149
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$118
How this compares
$12,085 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 829 orthopaedic surgery providers in Michigan.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 69 | $501 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 36 | $171 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 22 | $85 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Ann Arbor
- Asheesh BediAnn Arbor$9.4M
- John BlahaAnn Arbor$1.5M
- Bruce MillerAnn Arbor$562K
- John GrantAnn Arbor$353K
- Rakesh PatelAnn Arbor$318K
- Ilyas AleemAnn Arbor$238K
- Ira ZaltzAnn Arbor$208K
- Mohammed KhanAnn Arbor$206K
- Aaron PerdueAnn Arbor$196K
- James GouletAnn Arbor$143K
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.