Has Scott Nodzo, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $48,563 in general payments to Scott Nodzo, MD across 265 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 Scott Nodzo, 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 Scott Nodzo, 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.

Scott Nodzo, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Amherst, NYNPI 1225356074

Payments from drug & device makers

$48,563in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 265 payments — averaging $183.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Orthalign Inc$20K
Stryker$13K
Pixee Medical Inc.$11K
Smith+Nephew$2K
Maxx Orthopedics, Inc.$1000
Zimmer Biomet$257
plus $469 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$19,57540%
Speaking & faculty fees$2,5005%
Travel & lodging$8,39917%
Food & beverage$18,08937%

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
Orthalign Inc	19	$19,877
Stryker	147	$13,122
Pixee Medical Inc.	11	$11,474
Smith+Nephew	61	$2,365
Maxx Orthopedics, Inc.	11	$1,000
Zimmer Biomet	3	$257
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$145
Johnson & Johnson	2	$108
Orthosensor Inc.	2	$68
BD	1	$48
Next Science LLC	1	$38
Vertex	1	$30
Heraeus Medical, LLC.	3	$16
Davol Inc.	1	$16

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

$48,563 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,079 orthopaedic surgery providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$131,740

Medicare patients

216

Services billed

849

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
Lidocaine	17	$1,371
Meloxicam	57	$113
Amoxicillin	75	$84

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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