Has Richard Hinton, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,593 in general payments to Richard Hinton, MD across 24 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Richard Hinton, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Richard Hinton, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Richard Hinton, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Baltimore, MDNPI 1568406759

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,991 of the $2,593 with a category attached, or 76.8%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC at 44.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,078 and has fallen 83.4% since, to $179 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MD, where the typical reported total is $2,738.

$2,593in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $108.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC$1K
Zimmer Biomet$682
Arthrex$263
Smith+Nephew$205
Native Surgical, LLC$153
Vericel Corporation$82
plus $54 from 2 others

$17,760in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $17,760 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.

Arthrex$18K

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,99177%
Food & beverage$60223%

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
Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC	4	$1,156
Zimmer Biomet	8	$682
Arthrex	2	$263
Smith+Nephew	2	$205
Native Surgical, LLC	2	$153
Vericel Corporation	3	$82
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$40
Johnson & Johnson	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

$2,593 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 378 orthopaedic surgery providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$99,090

Medicare patients

180

Services billed

1,663

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.

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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.

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