Has Stephen Longenecker, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,554 in general payments to Stephen Longenecker, MD across 36 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 Stephen Longenecker, 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 Stephen Longenecker, 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.

Stephen Longenecker, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · West Reading, PANPI 1548262355

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,554in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 36 payments — averaging $293.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC$8K
Stryker$1K
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$831
Conformis, Inc.$257
Johnson & Johnson$147
Zimmer Biomet$122
plus $117 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$7,61072%
Consulting fees$1602%
Travel & lodging$1,10110%
Food & beverage$1,68216%

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
Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC	3	$7,714
Stryker	20	$1,366
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	4	$831
Conformis, Inc.	2	$257
Johnson & Johnson	3	$147
Zimmer Biomet	1	$122
Biocomposites Inc	1	$83
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$18
Avanos Medical	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

$10,554 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,048 orthopaedic surgery providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$650,017

Medicare patients

1,709

Services billed

8,644

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
Celecoxib	25	$633
Amoxicillin	275	$563
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	26	$346
Oxycodone Hcl	49	$185
Mupirocin	26	$173
Diclofenac Sodium	14	$144
Tramadol Hcl	47	$138
Cephalexin	38	$119
Meloxicam	17	$32

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.