Has Steven Cherney, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $30,993 in general payments to Steven Cherney, MD across 113 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 Steven Cherney, 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 Steven Cherney, 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.

Steven Cherney, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Milwaukee, WINPI 1487947768

Payments from drug & device makers

$30,993in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 113 payments — averaging $274.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Synthes GmbH$18K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$7K
Stryker$2K
Synthes USA Products LLC$2K
Johnson & Johnson$1K
Medinc Of Texas$273
plus $481 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,8006%
Speaking & faculty fees$12,00039%
Travel & lodging$11,33937%
Food & beverage$5,85419%

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
Synthes GmbH	20	$18,500
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	44	$6,793
Stryker	17	$2,012
Synthes USA Products LLC	1	$1,800
Johnson & Johnson	23	$1,134
Medinc Of Texas	2	$273
Smith+Nephew	1	$109
Curvafix, Inc.	1	$99
Acumed LLC	1	$81
Polynovo North America LLC	1	$69
Solventum Corporation	1	$69
Zimmer Biomet	1	$55

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

$30,993 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 498 orthopaedic surgery providers in Wisconsin.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$87,852

Medicare patients

100

Services billed

203

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.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Milwaukee

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Navjot KohliMilwaukee$145K
Donald HackbarthMilwaukee$106K
Michael DeckerMilwaukee$78K
Caitlin OrnerMilwaukee$42K
Elizabeth NolteMilwaukee$41K
Robert ChurchillGrafton$8.3M
Richard IllgenMadison$6.1M
Jeffrey McLaughlinOshkosh$2M

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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.

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