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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $127,978 in general payments to Robert Rolf, MD across 238 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 Rolf, 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 Rolf, 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 Rolf, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1831276187

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $99,000 of the $127,978 with a category attached, or 77.4%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 91.3% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $43,482 and has fallen 78.1% since, to $9,527 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$127,978in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 238 payments — averaging $537.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$117K
Brainlab, Inc.$3K
Legacy Ortho LLC$2K
Arthrex$2K
Stryker$2K
CDC Medical LLC$887
plus $681 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$99,00077%
Travel & lodging$16,52513%
Food & beverage$5,1974%
Education$7,2566%

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
Zimmer Biomet	174	$116,825
Brainlab, Inc.	7	$3,412
Legacy Ortho LLC	11	$2,207
Arthrex	12	$2,090
Stryker	7	$1,875
CDC Medical LLC	1	$887
Johnson & Johnson	22	$533
Restor3d, Inc.	1	$101
Smith+Nephew	2	$35
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$11

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

$127,978 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 794 orthopaedic surgery providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$370,191

Medicare patients

673

Services billed

11,650

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	421	$992
Methylprednisolone	117	$676
Celecoxib	28	$432
Ondansetron Hcl	53	$183
Oxycodone Hcl	33	$174
Diclofenac Sodium	24	$171
Gabapentin	20	$116
Amoxicillin	39	$83
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	19	$71
Prednisone	23	$66
Mupirocin	13	$47
Tramadol Hcl	15	$40

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Cincinnati

Michael ArchdeaconCincinnati$2.3M
Paul FavoritoCincinnati$961K
Michael SwankCincinnati$563K
Suresh NayakCincinnati$536K
Jonathon SpanyerCincinnati$193K
John WyrickCincinnati$169K
Todd KelleyCincinnati$71K
Reuben GobezieCleveland$12M
Gregory BerletWorthington$9.6M
Wael BarsoumCleveland$8.9M

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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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