Robert Gorsline, MD
Foot and Ankle Surgery · Hilliard, OHNPI 1003983743
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,385,725 of the $1,399,513 with a category attached, or 99.0%. Arthrex accounts for 99.9% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $853,830, more than ten times the $55,088 reported in 2019. Among foot and ankle 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 59 payments — averaging $23,721 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$1.4M
- CDC Medical LLC$1K
- Kairos Surgical Inc$138
- Exactech, Inc.$136
- Smith+Nephew$32
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,385,72599%
- Consulting fees$6,2250%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,7500%
- Travel & lodging$2,9290%
- Food & beverage$1,1730%
- Education$1,7110%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 44 | $1,397,850 |
| CDC Medical LLC | 11 | $1,356 |
| Kairos Surgical Inc | 1 | $138 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 2 | $136 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $32 |
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.
- ARTHREX$4,287,959
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS HINDFOOT & ANKLE TTC NAIL$50,000
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES INSTRUMENTS FRACTURE MANAGEMENT SMALL FRAGMENT$125
- VANTAGE$124
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS IB LIGAMENT AUGMENTATION OTHER$113
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES INSTRUMENTS FOOT & ANKLE DYNANITE$113
How this compares
$1,399,513 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 429 foot and ankle 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisone | 31 | $118 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot and ankle surgery in Hilliard
- Christopher HyerWorthington$4.7M
- Thomas LeePickerington$4M
- Jordan GrossmanAkron$2.5M
- Jonathan FeibelGahanna$1.4M
- Mark PrisselWorthington$1.2M
- Lee HladGahanna$440K
- Windy ColeKent$431K
- Elizabeth HewittGrove City$414K
- Dominic RizzoBlue Ash$303K
- Coleman CloughertyParma$263K
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.