Robert Bartelt, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Waterloo, IANPI 1851411532
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,536 of the $3,855 with a category attached, or 65.8%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 53.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,904 and has fallen 87.8% since, to $233 in 2025.
Across 77 payments — averaging $50.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$2K
- Wardlow Enterprises$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$343
- Convatec Inc.$33
- Heraeus Medical, LLC.$33
- Zimmer Biomet$23
- plus $80 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1193%
- Food & beverage$2,53666%
- Education$1,20031%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 52 | $2,060 |
| Wardlow Enterprises | 2 | $1,282 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 13 | $343 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 2 | $33 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $23 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $17 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $17 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $13 |
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.
- MAKO$362
How this compares
$3,855 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 219 orthopaedic surgery providers in Iowa.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Enoxaparin Sodium | 17 | $1,657 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 187 | $1,143 |
| Cefadroxil | 145 | $1,099 |
| Mupirocin | 132 | $891 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 100 | $860 |
| Amoxicillin | 130 | $240 |
| Meloxicam | 106 | $200 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 65 | $176 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 30 | $26 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Waterloo
- Jay GintherWaterloo$15K
- Mark GorscheWaterloo$10K
- John CallaghanIowa City$23.3M
- Brian AdamsIowa City$865K
- Cesar de Cesar NettoIowa City$693K
- Lynn NelsonBelmond$285K
- Robert WestermannIowa City$182K
- Joseph BuckwalterIowa City$132K
- Brendan PattersonIowa City$122K
- Nicholas BedardIowa City$59K
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.