Robert Gillespie, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Cleveland, OHNPI 1053525907
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $414,472 of the $671,599 with a category attached, or 61.7%. Shoulder Innovations, Inc. accounts for 88.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $238,246, more than ten times the $11,814 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 238 payments — averaging $2821.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Shoulder Innovations, Inc.$591K
- Stryker$42K
- Encore Medical, LP$35K
- Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc.$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$423
- Smith+Nephew$252
- plus $429 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$214,74932%
- Consulting fees$414,47262%
- Travel & lodging$27,5234%
- Food & beverage$11,6622%
- Education$2,4000%
- Gifts$7010%
- Entertainment$910%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 131 | $590,958 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 54 | $41,992 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 33 | $35,046 |
| Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc. | 4 | $2,497 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $423 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $252 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $193 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $136 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
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.
- InSet System$585,283
- REUNION$34,615
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$32,932
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$32,660
- MAKO$19,685
- T2$13,818
- GAMMA$12,693
- DJO SURGICAL$3,349
- TRIATHLON$2,138
- ADAPT$393
- LLIF PLATE$382
- Shoulder Innovations TSA$343
- DYNACORD$219
- EQUINOXE$193
- DJO Surgical Match Point System$146
- HIP ARTHROSCOPY ACCESS & INSTRUMENTATION SET$123
- MILAGRO$114
- HEALIX KNOTLESS PEEK$100
How this compares
$671,599 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 794 orthopaedic surgery providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 59 | $184 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $52 |
| Gabapentin | 12 | $44 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Cleveland
- Reuben GobezieCleveland$12M
- Wael BarsoumCleveland$8.9M
- Joseph IannottiCleveland$7.1M
- Anthony MiniaciCleveland$3.1M
- Kenneth GreeneCleveland$2.6M
- Mark FroimsonCleveland$2.5M
- Robert MolloyCleveland$2.3M
- Eric RicchettiCleveland$2.1M
- Thomas MrozCleveland$1.3M
- George ThompsonCleveland$420K
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.