RxDoctor Payments Data

Patrick Zietz, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Grand Rapids, MINPI 1750396412

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,268in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $152.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Arthrex$2K
  • Medwest Associates$2K
  • Zimmer Biomet$244
  • Stryker$144
  • Davol Inc.$94
  • Smith+Nephew$77
  • plus $53 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$52412%
  • Food & beverage$1,19428%
  • Education$2,55060%

General payments by program year

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25

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Arthrex13$1,914
Medwest Associates5$1,742
Zimmer Biomet2$244
Stryker3$144
Davol Inc.1$94
Smith+Nephew1$77
Integra Lifesciences Corporation1$25
Abbott1$14
Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc1$13

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

$4,268 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 829 orthopaedic surgery providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$54,840
Medicare patients
135
Services billed
6,649

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Celecoxib55$725
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen59$344
Meloxicam15$117
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl47$57
Amoxicillin17$21

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Grand Rapids

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