Stephen Sweeney
Orthopaedic Surgery · Erie, PANPI 1740552561
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 80 payments — averaging $59.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$994
- Johnson & Johnson$400
- Bioventus LLC$213
- Linkbio Corp$207
- Pylant Medical$204
- plus $1K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$70515%
- Food & beverage$4,02885%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 33 | $1,507 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 10 | $994 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $400 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $213 |
| Linkbio Corp | 1 | $207 |
| Pylant Medical | 4 | $204 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $174 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $171 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 2 | $129 |
| Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $127 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $122 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $71 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $65 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Flower Orthopedics Coporation | 1 | $45 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, 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.
- NA$809
- MAKO$300
- Exogen Ultrasound Bone Healing System$162
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$160
- HOFFMANN$143
- PRECICE Intramedullary Limb Lengthening System$127
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$126
- INSPACE$126
- Iovera$122
- Zynrelef$117
- BIO4$106
How this compares
$4,733 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,048 orthopaedic surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Erie
- William HozackBensalem$10.6M
- Jess LonnerBryn Mawr$8.1M
- Gerald WilliamsBryn Mawr$6.8M
- Mark LazarusBensalem$6.4M
- John FenlinPhiladelphia$5.9M
- Peter SharkeyKing Of Prussia$5.7M
- Selene ParekhBensalem$4.9M
- Alexander VaccaroPhiladelphia$4.5M
- Joseph AbboudPhiladelphia$4.1M
- Jonathan GarinoMalvern$3.8M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.