RxDoctor Payments Data

Roger Setzler, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Mobile, ALNPI 1639179062

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 96.3% of the total across 22 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 11 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $224 and has fallen 81.8% since, to $41 in 2023. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in AL, where the typical reported total is $2,073.

$480in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $21.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Zimmer Biomet$115
  • Prime Surgical, LLC$113
  • Smith+Nephew$62
  • Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$42
  • Johnson & Johnson$31
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$29
  • plus $87 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$184%
  • Food & beverage$46296%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Zimmer Biomet7$115
Prime Surgical, LLC1$113
Smith+Nephew3$62
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.2$42
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)2$31
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC2$29
Baxter Healthcare1$21
DJO, LLC1$20
Medtronic1$18
Stryker1$14
Pfizer1$14

How this compares

$480 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 319 orthopaedic surgery providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$15,488
Medicare patients
71
Services billed
635

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Diclofenac Sodium ErDiclofenac Sodium121$3,880
Meloxicam177$382
Celecoxib19$326
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen19$243
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen31$221
Tramadol Hcl43$168
Gabapentin16$112
Cephalexin17$83

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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