Has Robert Friedman, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,582 in general payments to Robert Friedman, MD across 16 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 Robert Friedman, 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 Robert Friedman, 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.

Robert Friedman, MD

Sports Medicine · Bethlehem, PANPI 1790772499

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,582in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $98.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$873
Linvatec Corporation$231
Stryker$207
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.$94
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$93
Novus Surgical Consultants$63
plus $22 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$87355%
Food & beverage$50332%
Education$20713%

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
Johnson & Johnson	2	$873
Linvatec Corporation	3	$231
Stryker	1	$207
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.	5	$94
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$93
Novus Surgical Consultants	2	$63
Axogen	1	$22

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

$1,582 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 311 sports medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$253,931

Medicare patients

546

Services billed

4,323

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
Celecoxib	79	$1,793
Meloxicam	110	$477
Diclofenac Sodium	30	$341
Prednisone	54	$275
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	23	$139
Amoxicillin	49	$129
Tramadol Hcl	29	$88

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other sports medicine in Bethlehem

Alexander JohnsonBethlehem$51K
Rupam DasBethlehem$15K
Nicholas SlenkerBethlehem$12K
James SundayBethlehem$10K
Marcos MartinezBethlehem$7K
Sam AkhavanPittsburgh$2.3M
Albert LinPittsburgh$503K
Christopher MehalloPhiladelphia$485K
David BizouskyIndiana$418K
Theresa PazionisPhiladelphia$253K

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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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