Ryan Sauber, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1487914792
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 175 payments — averaging $164.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$17K
- Medtronic$5K
- Stryker$4K
- Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC$2K
- Cerapedics Inc.$697
- Si-bone, Inc.$147
- plus $492 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$14,75051%
- Travel & lodging$7,29125%
- Food & beverage$6,14821%
- Education$6512%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 25 | $16,510 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 68 | $5,130 |
| Stryker | 32 | $3,914 |
| Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC | 24 | $1,950 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 11 | $697 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $147 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $132 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $125 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $62 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 3 | $40 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $27 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $19 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $18 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $17 |
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.
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$1,728
- ES2 SPINAL SYSTEM$1,318
- UNID_PASS$971
- MESA$540
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$473
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$426
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$263
- MAKO$173
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$148
- N/A$136
- ALEUTIAN CERVICAL$136
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$133
- OZARK CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$132
- SERRATO$132
- iFuse Implant$131
- TFN ADVANCED$125
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$117
- CD HORIZON$112
- Irrisept$109
- ALLOGRAFT$100
How this compares
$28,841 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,048 orthopaedic surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 70 | $748 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 72 | $488 |
| Methocarbamol | 44 | $457 |
| Methylprednisolone | 28 | $206 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 12 | $86 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Pittsburgh
- Edward WestrickPittsburgh$1.1M
- Timothy SauberPittsburgh$373K
- Kenneth UrishPittsburgh$336K
- Eric YakishPittsburgh$278K
- Gary SchmidtPittsburgh$260K
- Ivan TarkinPittsburgh$243K
- Anthony DigioiaPittsburgh$217K
- William HozackBensalem$10.6M
- Jess LonnerBryn Mawr$8.1M
- Gerald WilliamsBryn Mawr$6.8M
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.