Has Richelle Takemoto, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $36,316 in general payments to Richelle Takemoto, MD across 138 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 Richelle Takemoto, 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 Richelle Takemoto, 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.

Richelle Takemoto, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1043478050

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (41.3%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 57.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $9,480 and has fallen 93.5% since, to $617 in 2025.

$36,316in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 138 payments — averaging $263.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$21K
Trimed, Inc.$4K
Smith+Nephew$4K
Johnson & Johnson$4K
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$1K
Lima USA, Inc.$989
plus $1K from 9 others

$3,300in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $3300.00 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.$3K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$14,45040%
Speaking & faculty fees$5001%
Travel & lodging$15,01341%
Food & beverage$6,19117%
Education$1620%

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.	39	$20,931
Trimed, Inc.	6	$4,263
Smith+Nephew	19	$3,956
Johnson & Johnson	28	$3,647
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	5	$1,035
Lima USA, Inc.	7	$989
Baxter Healthcare	16	$436
Stryker	7	$323
Zimmer Biomet	3	$298
Next Science LLC	2	$116
Lifenet Health	1	$111
Orthalign Inc	1	$90
Bioventus LLC	2	$70
Medacta USA, Inc.	1	$26
Mimedx Group, Inc.	1	$24

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

$36,316 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,048 orthopaedic surgery providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$63,209

Medicare patients

126

Services billed

558

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
Cephalexin	14	$1,252
Meloxicam	356	$892
Celecoxib	29	$553
Oxycodone Hcl	27	$164
Gabapentin	11	$99
Tramadol Hcl	22	$45
Amoxicillin	34	$44
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	12	$33

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Anthony DigioiaPittsburgh$217K
Kenneth UrishPittsburgh$207K
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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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