Russell Stitzlein, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Orange, CANPI 1154681708
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 54 payments — averaging $124.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc.$3K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$745
- Onkos Surgical, Inc.$717
- Stryker$672
- Johnson & Johnson$556
- Globus Medical$477
- plus $961 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,75526%
- Travel & lodging$1,48522%
- Food & beverage$3,49052%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $2,601 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $745 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 9 | $717 |
| Stryker | 7 | $672 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $556 |
| Globus Medical | 4 | $477 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 7 | $433 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $133 |
| Omnilife Science, Inc | 1 | $89 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Intellijoint Surgical Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $18 |
| Carbofix Orthopedics Inc | 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.
- VIMSELTINIB$2,424
- ATTUNE$577
- Excelsius - GPS$377
- ELEOS LIMB SALVAGE SYSTEM$340
- Velys$277
- PROFYLE$166
- HOFFMANN$151
- CellerateRx$146
- CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$133
- CERAMENT G$133
- ROSA$123
- Persona$121
- Knees Product Portfolio$110
How this compares
$6,729 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 11 | $81 |
| Meloxicam | 14 | $23 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Orange
- Robert GorabOrange$14.5M
- Steven BarnettOrange$1.2M
- Jonah Hebert DaviesOrange$653K
- Jonathan KaplanOrange$635K
- Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
- Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
- Stephen HowellSacramento$9.4M
- Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
- Peter NewtonSan Diego$7M
- Nirav AminPlacentia$5.8M
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.