Ray Wasielewski
Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Columbus, OHNPI 1407841455
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $9,550,617 of the $9,550,617 with a category attached, or 100.0%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Zimmer Biomet. 2023 is the largest year on record at $5,283,355, 5.8 times the $911,996 reported in 2019. Among adult reconstructive 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 27 payments — averaging $353,727 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$9.6M
Across 2 payments — averaging $1606.50 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.
- Smith+Nephew$3K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$9,550,617100%
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 | 27 | $9,550,617 |
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.
- Persona$9,435,557
- Persona Revision$115,061
How this compares
$9,550,617 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 59 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Ohio.
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Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Columbus
- Matthew BealColumbus$319K
- Jeffrey ReevesColumbus$46K
- Nicholas KolodychukColumbus$26K
- Robert FadaColumbus$214
- Adolph LombardiNew Albany$14.7M
- Viktor KrebsCleveland$7.5M
- Keith BerendNew Albany$4.6M
- Nicolas PiuzziCleveland$1.2M
- Michael BloomfieldCleveland$321K
- Jason HurstNew Albany$255K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.