Stephen Jacobsen, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Carmel, INNPI 1033377791
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $33,803 of the $47,762 with a category attached, or 70.8%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 53.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $24,874 and has fallen 97.4% since, to $657 in 2025.
Across 113 payments — averaging $422.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$25K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$12K
- Stryker$4K
- Gemini Medical LLC$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Encore Medical, LP$1K
- plus $1K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$33,80371%
- Travel & lodging$5,45611%
- Food & beverage$4,90410%
- Education$2,9056%
- Gifts$6961%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 24 | $25,429 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 7 | $12,027 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 46 | $3,990 |
| Gemini Medical LLC | 2 | $2,806 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 14 | $1,322 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 7 | $1,178 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 1 | $382 |
| Arthrex | 2 | $264 |
| Foundation Medical, LLC | 3 | $126 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $100 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| Crossroads Orthopedics, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Abbott | 1 | $20 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $17 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $15 |
| DJO, LLC | 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.
- GRYPHON$14,043
- HEALIX$13,189
- CAPITAL EQUIPMENT CART$13,064
- FMS$13,064
- RIGIDLOOP$11,250
- MILAGRO$6,587
- BIOINTRAFIX$5,337
- COR$5,337
- RAPIDLOC PDS PANACRYL$4,662
- VISUALIZATION$4,390
- DJO SURGICAL$2,123
- REUNION$1,000
- Ascend Flex$696
- RAPIDLOC$675
- GLOBAL$643
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$306
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$173
- TORNIER PERFORM REVERSED GLENOID$166
- VAPR$150
- ARTHREX$147
How this compares
$47,762 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 400 orthopaedic surgery providers in Indiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 93 | $629 |
| Meloxicam | 166 | $622 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 59 | $419 |
| Ibuprofen | 16 | $113 |
| Gabapentin | 26 | $102 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 18 | $99 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 21 | $33 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $30 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Carmel
- Jeffery PiersonCarmel$237K
- Philip HuangCarmel$154K
- Robert MalinzakCarmel$110K
- Zachary NapierCarmel$87K
- Jason YeCarmel$83K
- Joseph HareCarmel$56K
- Jeffrey KonopkaCarmel$44K
- Bryan SaltzmanCarmel$29K
- Frank KolisekGreenwood$7.5M
- David FisherIndianapolis$5.9M
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.