Has Orry Erez, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,077 in general payments to Orry Erez, MD across 22 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 Orry Erez, 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 Orry Erez, 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.

Orry Erez, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1609085786

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $730 of the $1,077 with a category attached, or 67.8%. Stryker accounts for 71.3% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2024 is the largest year on record at $565, 5.3 times the $107 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in NY, where the typical reported total is $4,024.

$1,077in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $48.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$768
Intellijoint Surgical Inc.$197
Johnson & Johnson$52
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$39
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$22

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$34732%
Food & beverage$73068%

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	16	$768
Intellijoint Surgical Inc.	1	$197
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$52
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	2	$39
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$22

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.

Intellijoint$197
MAKO$161

How this compares

$1,077 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 1,079 orthopaedic surgery providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$155,359

Medicare patients

330

Services billed

2,198

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
MeloxicamMeloxicam, Submicronized	21	$9,882
Diclofenac Sodium	140	$6,547
Celecoxib	85	$839
Meloxicam	312	$790
Oxycodone Hcl	33	$119
Ibuprofen	13	$66

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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