Stephen Conti
Orthopaedic Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1902806300
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $60,664 of the $93,827 with a category attached, or 64.7%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Exactech, Inc. at 45.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $26,984 and has fallen 79.3% since, to $5,591 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 91 payments — averaging $1031.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Exactech, Inc.$42K
- Extremity Medical$28K
- Zimvie Inc.$10K
- Microaire Surgical Instruments LLC$6K
- Smith+Nephew$4K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$1K
- plus $3K from 9 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $4500.00 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.
- Arthrex$5K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$27,58429%
- Consulting fees$60,66465%
- Travel & lodging$3,9234%
- Food & beverage$1,3731%
- Gifts$2820%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Exactech, Inc. | 26 | $42,354 |
| Extremity Medical | 18 | $28,159 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 6 | $9,910 |
| Microaire Surgical Instruments LLC | 3 | $5,977 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $3,802 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $1,000 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 14 | $925 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 5 | $634 |
| Ascension Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $500 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $198 |
| Ortho Solutions Inc | 2 | $172 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $31 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $14 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $11 |
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.
- EQUINOXE$30,504
- IO Freedom$26,593
- VANTAGE$11,685
- EBI OsteoGen Implantable Bone Growth Stimulator$9,121
- SALTO TALARIS TOTAL ANKLE PROSTHESIS$1,500
- PANTA 2 ARTHRODESIS NAIL SYSTEM$1,000
- Biomet EBI Bone Healing System$755
- PANTA NAIL$500
- TOTAL FOOT SYSTEM$500
- CADENCE ANKLE REPLACEMENT SYSTEM$500
- AGILITY$364
- CARTIVA$282
- INBONE$170
- INVISION$170
- PROPHECY$170
- PSI$140
- Bone Healing Product Portfolio$123
How this compares
$93,827 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisolone Acetate | 12 | $402 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Pittsburgh
- Edward WestrickPittsburgh$938K
- Timothy SauberPittsburgh$373K
- Eric YakishPittsburgh$278K
- Gary SchmidtPittsburgh$256K
- Ivan TarkinPittsburgh$243K
- Anthony DigioiaPittsburgh$217K
- Kenneth UrishPittsburgh$207K
- William HozackBensalem$10.6M
- Jess LonnerBryn Mawr$7.8M
- 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.