Paul Favorito, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1306845151
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $867,878 of the $960,955 with a category attached, or 90.3%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 76.3% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in OH 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 534 payments — averaging $1799.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$733K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$188K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$18K
- Smith+Nephew$9K
- Synthes GmbH$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- plus $6K from 11 others
Across 36 payments — averaging $6301.02 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.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$227K
Across 1 payment — averaging $167,455 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Zurimed Technologies Inc.$167K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$15,1662%
- Consulting fees$867,87890%
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,1971%
- Travel & lodging$58,1436%
- Food & beverage$11,5721%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 314 | $733,446 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 119 | $188,250 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 5 | $18,212 |
| Smith+Nephew | 19 | $9,305 |
| Synthes GmbH | 7 | $3,475 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 29 | $2,222 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $1,500 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 6 | $1,144 |
| Legacy Ortho LLC | 6 | $1,128 |
| Arthrex | 11 | $629 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 7 | $573 |
| Stryker | 4 | $432 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 2 | $241 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $148 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| Xiros Inc | 1 | $103 |
| Biorez, Inc. | 1 | $44 |
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.
- DELTA$193,615
- EXPAREL$98,833
- ARTHROSCOPE SHEATH$96,649
- ABSOLUTE$95,499
- BIOINTRAFIX$95,499
- BIOLOX DELTA$53,055
- ORTHOCORD$22,860
- MATRIX HD$17,321
- Gryphon Orthocord$14,768
- VISUALIZATION$7,200
- INHANCE$6,416
- LATARJET EXPERIENCE$5,694
- BRISTOW-LATARJET$4,614
- Regeneten$4,394
- Velys$2,561
- DYNACORD$2,511
- GLOBAL$1,813
- DYNATAPE$1,503
- HTX-011$1,500
- REGENESORB$1,313
How this compares
$960,955 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 794 orthopaedic surgery providers in Ohio.
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-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 23 | $178 |
| Prednisone | 11 | $28 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Cincinnati
- Michael ArchdeaconCincinnati$2.3M
- Michael SwankCincinnati$563K
- Suresh NayakCincinnati$536K
- Jonathon SpanyerCincinnati$193K
- John WyrickCincinnati$169K
- Robert RolfCincinnati$128K
- Todd KelleyCincinnati$71K
- Reuben GobezieCleveland$12M
- Gregory BerletWorthington$9.6M
- Wael BarsoumCleveland$8.9M
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.