Ryan Nelson, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery · Grand Blanc, MINPI 1093009979
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 207 payments — averaging $195.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$19K
- Linvatec Corporation$7K
- Arthrex$5K
- Medwest Associates$2K
- Trimed, Inc.$2K
- Microport Orthopedics Inc$1K
- plus $4K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,0002%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,77419%
- Travel & lodging$24,53861%
- Food & beverage$4,43711%
- Education$2,6367%
- Gifts$1140%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 70 | $19,471 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 8 | $6,880 |
| Arthrex | 8 | $4,539 |
| Medwest Associates | 4 | $2,292 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 3 | $1,763 |
| Microport Orthopedics Inc | 8 | $1,469 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 10 | $1,068 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $835 |
| Stryker | 5 | $303 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 9 | $294 |
| Vericel Corporation | 4 | $202 |
| FH Orthopedics, Inc. | 2 | $192 |
| Amgen | 31 | $168 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 8 | $161 |
| Engage Uni, LLC | 1 | $114 |
| Vertex | 2 | $103 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $78 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $76 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $65 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 5 | $62 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $60 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $55 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $45 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $38 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Embody, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Astellas Pharma US 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$18,871
- BIOBRACE$4,750
- BioBrace 23mm$2,045
- MPO Medial Pivot Knee$1,321
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$835
- DJO Surgical Match Point System$835
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$835
- Q-FIX Hip$535
- Hipstruments$398
- ACCUPASS DIRECT Crescent XL$398
- Hip Positioning System$273
- BIORAPTOR Hip$135
- AXSOS$133
- Arrow$126
- EVOS MINI$119
- EVOS$119
- TRIGEN InterTAN$119
- MACI$118
- Engage Partial Knee System$114
How this compares
$40,499 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 829 orthopaedic surgery providers in Michigan.
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 Hcl | 149 | $858 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 112 | $765 |
| Ibuprofen | 99 | $655 |
| Meloxicam | 204 | $582 |
| Methylprednisolone | 98 | $416 |
| Celecoxib | 32 | $348 |
| Mupirocin | 36 | $217 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 56 | $173 |
| Amoxicillin | 85 | $108 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 15 | $26 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 13 | $26 |
| Diazepam | 16 | $22 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Grand Blanc
- Asheesh BediAnn Arbor$9.4M
- Jerome WiaterBeverly Hills$5.7M
- Jad KhalilSouthfield$3.7M
- Mark PintoChelsea$3.2M
- Kyle AndersonBingham Farms$3.1M
- Stephen BartolDetroit$2.6M
- Jeffrey FischgrundSouthfield$1.8M
- David MarkelSouthfield$1.7M
- Richard EastonRochester Hills$1.6M
- Shariff BishaiTroy$1.5M
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.