Paul Courtney, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Bensalem, PANPI 1225329972
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $1,187,397 of the $1,352,131 with a category attached, or 87.8%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 84.8% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $816,089, more than ten times the $23,158 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 535 payments — averaging $2527.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$1.1M
- Smith+Nephew$95K
- Stryker$74K
- Convatec Inc.$10K
- Corentec America Inc$10K
- Restor3d, Inc.$6K
- plus $9K from 11 others
Across 19 payments — averaging $4299.26 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Zimmer Biomet$44K
- Smith+Nephew$37K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,187,39788%
- Speaking & faculty fees$44,7883%
- Travel & lodging$43,0383%
- Food & beverage$16,9081%
- Education$60,0004%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 285 | $1,147,090 |
| Smith+Nephew | 86 | $94,964 |
| Stryker | 122 | $74,403 |
| Convatec Inc. | 7 | $10,059 |
| Corentec America Inc | 1 | $10,000 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 6 | $6,213 |
| Synthes USA Products LLC | 4 | $4,121 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $2,945 |
| G21 SRL | 1 | $1,500 |
| Merete Technologies, Inc | 1 | $400 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $120 |
| Davol Inc. | 7 | $117 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 3 | $55 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $30 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $16 |
| Omnilife Science, Inc | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Journey II$94,333
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$61,356
- G7$57,066
- MAKO$54,539
- REDAPT$45,909
- Persona$45,724
- Avenir$34,350
- Legion Revision$33,378
- Arcos$32,671
- Tandem$29,006
- OR3O Dual Mobility$25,343
- Engage Partial Knee System$23,688
- TRIATHLON$20,988
- Anthology$16,109
- PD-Knee-New Product$13,750
- POLARSTEM$10,431
- AVELLE$10,033
- Bencox Hip System$10,000
- LOSPA Knee System$10,000
- OR3O$9,291
How this compares
$1,352,131 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,048 orthopaedic surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 214 | $1,183 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 18 | $203 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 11 | $201 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 72 | $170 |
| Mupirocin | 29 | $138 |
| Meloxicam | 36 | $111 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 18 | $81 |
| Amoxicillin | 21 | $61 |
| Gabapentin | 20 | $58 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Bensalem
- William HozackBensalem$10.6M
- Mark LazarusBensalem$6.4M
- Selene ParekhBensalem$4.5M
- Thomas ChaBensalem$309K
- Jess LonnerBryn Mawr$7.8M
- Gerald WilliamsBryn Mawr$6.8M
- John FenlinPhiladelphia$5.9M
- Peter SharkeyKing Of Prussia$5.7M
- Alexander VaccaroPhiladelphia$4.5M
- Joseph AbboudPhiladelphia$3.9M
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.