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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $17,968 in general payments to Nicholas Wegner, MD across 77 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 Wegner, 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 Wegner, 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 Wegner, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Newport Beach, CANPI 1699917492

Payments from drug & device makers

$17,968in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 77 payments — averaging $233.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Conetic Solutions, Inc.$8K
Arthrex$5K
Stryker$5K
Zimmer Biomet$299
Saxum Surgical, Inc.$219
RSW Medical Company, Inc.$118
plus $83 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$4,14823%
Food & beverage$2,62115%
Education$11,20062%

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
Conetic Solutions, Inc.	8	$7,531
Arthrex	20	$4,866
Stryker	38	$4,852
Zimmer Biomet	3	$299
Saxum Surgical, Inc.	2	$219
RSW Medical Company, Inc.	1	$118
Implant Direct Sybron International LLC	2	$33
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$31
Polynovo North America LLC	1	$19

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

$17,968 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$288,066

Medicare patients

635

Services billed

2,554

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	65	$604
Meloxicam	148	$448
Oxycodone Hcl	80	$395
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	30	$290
Minocycline Hcl	26	$209
Tramadol Hcl	22	$51

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Newport Beach

Hafiz KassamNewport Beach$1.1M
Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
Robert GorabOrange$14.5M
Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
Stephen HowellSacramento$9.4M
Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
Peter NewtonSan Diego$7M
Nirav AminPlacentia$5.8M
Tom NorrisSan Francisco$5.3M
Jay LiebermanLos Angeles$4.8M

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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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