Thomas Herron
Orthopaedic Surgery · Cleveland, OHNPI 1104310226
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 110 payments — averaging $294.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$23K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$4K
- Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc.$2K
- Stryker$1K
- Fortis Surgical, LLC$373
- Johnson & Johnson$321
- plus $1K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$20,00062%
- Travel & lodging$4,59914%
- Food & beverage$3,84112%
- Education$4,00812%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 24 | $22,545 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 31 | $4,211 |
| Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc. | 5 | $2,443 |
| Stryker | 19 | $1,217 |
| Fortis Surgical, LLC | 10 | $373 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $321 |
| Acumed LLC | 2 | $305 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $283 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $164 |
| Powerlink AI, Inc. | 2 | $159 |
| Kairos Surgical Inc | 1 | $142 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 2 | $140 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $91 |
| Osteoremedies, LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $23 |
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.
- RIGIDLOOP$1,000
- ACTIS$990
- ACUMED$796
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$264
- OsteoMed$199
- EQUINOXE$164
- ACCOLADE$150
- MAKO$139
- GAMMA$137
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$135
- TRUESPAN ORTHOCORD$120
- LIVATEC KNEE PRESERVATION SYSTEM$110
- Acutrak Headless Compression Screw System$106
- Anatomic Radial Head System$106
- Clavicle Plating System$106
- Elbow Plating System$106
- Scapula Plating System$106
How this compares
$32,448 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 794 orthopaedic surgery providers in Ohio.
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 | 27 | $68 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Cleveland
- Reuben GobezieCleveland$12.6M
- Wael BarsoumCleveland$8.9M
- Joseph IannottiCleveland$7.1M
- Anthony MiniaciCleveland$3.1M
- Mark FroimsonCleveland$2.9M
- Kenneth GreeneCleveland$2.6M
- Robert MolloyCleveland$2.3M
- Eric RicchettiCleveland$2.1M
- Thomas MrozCleveland$1.3M
- Robert OrrCleveland$715K
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.