Robert Cowan, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Springfield, MANPI 1003834490
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 27 payments — averaging $57.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$502
- Nevro Corp.$375
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$150
- Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC$142
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$118
- Johnson & Johnson$60
- plus $218 from 6 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $12,000 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.
- Medtronic$24K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,564100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 5 | $502 |
| Nevro Corp. | 7 | $375 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 5 | $142 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $118 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $60 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $59 |
| Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Stryker | 1 | $50 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Vertex | 1 | $19 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $16 |
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.
- O-ARM$155
- M6-C$150
- UNID_PASS$132
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$128
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$118
How this compares
$1,564 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 542 orthopaedic surgery providers in Massachusetts.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lidocaine | 13 | $1,282 |
| Pregabalin | 46 | $1,101 |
| Celecoxib | 42 | $880 |
| Gabapentin | 70 | $719 |
| Meloxicam | 127 | $657 |
| Sulindac | 37 | $368 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 34 | $277 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 36 | $242 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 58 | $170 |
| Prednisone | 58 | $123 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 16 | $79 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Springfield
- Joseph SklarSpringfield$256K
- Paul TornettaBoston$16.7M
- Thomas ThornhillBoston$12M
- Stephen MurphyRoxbury Crossing$8M
- Andrew FreibergBoston$5.9M
- Jon WarnerBoston$5.5M
- Wolfgang FitzBoston$3.7M
- Young Min KwonBoston$2.8M
- Brian KwonWaltham$1.9M
- Simon ChaoNorth Easton$1.6M
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.