Has Ryan Michels, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $13,699 in general payments to Ryan Michels, MD across 41 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 Ryan Michels, 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 Ryan Michels, 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.

Ryan Michels, MD

Orthopaedic Trauma · West Reading, PANPI 1922398957

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $9,500 of the $13,699 with a category attached, or 69.3%. Si-bone, Inc. accounts for 91.5% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $7,376 and has fallen 95.9% since, to $303 in 2025.

$13,699in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 41 payments — averaging $334.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Si-bone, Inc.$13K
Stryker$845
Johnson & Johnson$219
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$68
Baxter Healthcare$39

$42,174in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $1317.94 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Si-bone, Inc.$42K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$9,50069%
Travel & lodging$1,98214%
Food & beverage$2,17816%
Other$390%

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
Si-bone, Inc.	25	$12,528
Stryker	10	$845
Johnson & Johnson	2	$219
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	3	$68
Baxter Healthcare	1	$39

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

$13,699 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 21 orthopaedic trauma providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$384,434

Medicare patients

1,030

Services billed

7,245

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	111	$274
Oxycodone Hcl	52	$197
Celecoxib	19	$195
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	14	$78
Tramadol Hcl	32	$63
Amoxicillin	28	$62
Tizanidine Hcl	14	$12

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.