Robert Kulwin, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1740692359
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 165 payments — averaging $261.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Polynovo North America LLC$13K
- Stryker$12K
- Paragon 28, Inc.$6K
- Arthrex$5K
- Legacy Ortho LLC$4K
- Medline Industries LP$904
- plus $2K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$18,50643%
- Travel & lodging$11,55827%
- Food & beverage$8,09119%
- Education$4,96412%
- Gifts$100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Polynovo North America LLC | 12 | $13,365 |
| Stryker | 83 | $11,849 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 4 | $6,416 |
| Arthrex | 33 | $4,986 |
| Legacy Ortho LLC | 13 | $3,979 |
| Medline Industries LP | 6 | $904 |
| Medwest Associates | 1 | $370 |
| Extremity Medical | 1 | $294 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $292 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $266 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $162 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $95 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $13 |
| Acumed 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.
- Novosorb BTM$13,333
- Portfolio$6,240
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$2,318
- INBONE$1,586
- PROstep$1,386
- INFINITY$1,182
- ORTHOLOC 3DI$1,120
- PROPHECY$999
- INVISION$871
- VARIAX$551
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$498
- CITREFIX$488
- FIXOS$322
- IO FiX$294
- INFINITY ADAPTIS$280
- Xperience$266
- BlastX$266
- SurgX$266
- HOFFMANN$250
- PATIENT-FITTED TMJ RECONSTRUCTIVE PROSTHESIS SYSTEM$173
How this compares
$43,129 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 32 | $392 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 19 | $212 |
| Methylprednisolone | 18 | $106 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Cincinnati
- Michael ArchdeaconCincinnati$2.3M
- Paul FavoritoCincinnati$1.3M
- Michael SwankCincinnati$1M
- Suresh NayakCincinnati$556K
- Theodore leCincinnati$224K
- Jonathon SpanyerCincinnati$193K
- John WyrickCincinnati$169K
- Anthony GuancialeCincinnati$161K
- Todd KelleyCincinnati$144K
- Robert RolfCincinnati$128K
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.