Stephen Liu, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Philadelphia, PANPI 1780975433
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 144 payments — averaging $844.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$55K
- Puma Biotechnology, Inc.$27K
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$13K
- Pfizer$7K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$7K
- Synthes USA Products LLC$6K
- plus $8K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$25,02729%
- Travel & lodging$1,9282%
- Food & beverage$5,7897%
- Education$54,52462%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 31 | $54,727 |
| Puma Biotechnology, Inc. | 6 | $26,768 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $12,737 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $6,880 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 10 | $6,717 |
| Synthes USA Products LLC | 8 | $6,272 |
| Liberty Surgical Inc. | 3 | $2,439 |
| Smith+Nephew | 19 | $1,072 |
| Stryker | 11 | $820 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 1 | $740 |
| Medartis Inc. | 8 | $495 |
| Acumed LLC | 3 | $321 |
| Axogen | 4 | $315 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $281 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 12 | $246 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $162 |
| Paladin Technology Solutions | 3 | $113 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 2 | $112 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $98 |
| Exsomed Corporation | 2 | $84 |
| Vertex | 1 | $63 |
| Thommen Medical USA, LLC | 1 | $43 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $38 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $24 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $23 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Geminus$53,827
- Align$53,827
- IJS$53,827
- Implate$53,827
- ZEPZELCA$12,737
- VA-LCP PLATES & SCREWS$6,545
- VA-LCP$6,162
- LCP$6,162
- INTEGRA$419
- Stravix$390
- Oasis$276
- APTUS$246
- GRAFIX PL$236
- STRAVIX PL$236
- Grafix$154
- ACCOLADE$149
- T2$144
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$140
- PRIMATRIX$140
- Acu-Loc Wrist Spanning System$138
How this compares
$121,656 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 30 | $104 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Philadelphia
- John FenlinPhiladelphia$5.9M
- Alexander VaccaroPhiladelphia$4.5M
- Joseph AbboudPhiladelphia$4.1M
- Samir MehtaPhiladelphia$3.7M
- Surena NamdariPhiladelphia$1.8M
- Craig IsraelitePhiladelphia$938K
- Andrew KuntzPhiladelphia$732K
- Neil ShethPhiladelphia$633K
- Vahid EntezariPhiladelphia$487K
- Amrit KhalsaPhiladelphia$475K
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.