Scott Gleason
Orthopaedic Surgery · West Burlington, IANPI 1225454044
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — grants (53.0%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Arthrex accounts for 71.9% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $20,082 and has fallen 91.6% since, to $1,686 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in IA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 95 payments — averaging $455.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$31K
- Wardlow Enterprises$7K
- DJO, LLC$3K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Prism Medical$601
- Vericel Corporation$546
- plus $257 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$22,91753%
- Travel & lodging$7,11716%
- Food & beverage$1,9975%
- Education$11,20426%
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 | 62 | $31,082 |
| Wardlow Enterprises | 12 | $6,710 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $2,917 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $1,121 |
| Prism Medical | 1 | $601 |
| Vericel Corporation | 4 | $546 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $104 |
| Axogen | 1 | $82 |
| Stryker | 2 | $61 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $9 |
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
$43,234 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 219 orthopaedic surgery providers in Iowa.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 55 | $436 |
| Gabapentin | 63 | $236 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 36 | $178 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 14 | $65 |
| Amoxicillin | 26 | $42 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in West Burlington
- John CallaghanIowa City$23.3M
- Brian AdamsIowa City$865K
- Cesar de Cesar NettoIowa City$693K
- Lynn NelsonBelmond$285K
- Robert WestermannIowa City$182K
- Joseph BuckwalterIowa City$132K
- Brendan PattersonIowa City$122K
- Nicholas BedardIowa City$59K
- Charles ClarkIowa City$50K
- Michael DolphinDavenport$48K
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.