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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $409 in general payments to Steven Priano, MD across 26 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 Priano, 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 Priano, 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 Priano, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Lancaster, OHNPI 1447238944

Payments from drug & device makers

$409in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 26 payments — averaging $15.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Orthofix Medical, Inc.$70
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$50
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$49
Vertex$39
Smith+Nephew$36
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$27
plus $139 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$38895%
Education$215%

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
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	6	$70
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$50
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$49
Vertex	2	$39
Smith+Nephew	2	$36
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	2	$27
Medtronic(2 entities)	2	$27
Vericel Corporation	1	$21
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$21
Convatec Inc.	1	$20
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$20
Avanos Medical	1	$15
Johnson & Johnson	1	$14

How this compares

$409 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 794 orthopaedic surgery providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$223,784

Medicare patients

359

Services billed

6,160

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	258	$1,332
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	237	$957
Meloxicam	160	$412
Cefadroxil	35	$348
Tramadol Hcl	97	$148
Methylprednisolone	16	$116
Prednisone	53	$79
Oxycodone Hcl	24	$28
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	11	$4
Diazepam	12	$4

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Lancaster

Mark D'onofrioLancaster$159K
Reuben GobezieCleveland$12.6M
Brad PichaIndependence$12.3M
Gregory BerletWorthington$9.9M
Wael BarsoumCleveland$8.9M
Brian CohenChillicothe$8.9M
Joseph IannottiCleveland$7.1M
John SontichYoungstown$3.6M
Anthony MiniaciCleveland$3.1M
Mark FroimsonCleveland$2.9M

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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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