RxDoctor Payments Data

Peter Ugolini, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Grand Rapids, MINPI 1821103193

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,279in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $65.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medwest Associates$845
  • Zimmer Biomet$677
  • Stryker$327
  • Davol Inc.$140
  • Exactech, Inc.$86
  • Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$71
  • plus $133 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1095%
  • Food & beverage$1,72376%
  • Education$44720%

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

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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
Medwest Associates6$845
Zimmer Biomet7$677
Stryker(2 entities)7$327
Davol Inc.3$140
Exactech, Inc.1$86
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.4$71
Bioventus LLC2$48
Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc2$30
Abbott1$23
Linvatec Corporation1$19
Dynasplint Systems 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.

How this compares

$2,279 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 829 orthopaedic surgery providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$103,757
Medicare patients
167
Services billed
665

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen51$329
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen44$203
Meloxicam27$86
Oxycodone Hcl13$48
Tramadol Hcl13$25

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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