Thomas Mroz, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Cleveland, OHNPI 1396781878
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,273,270 of the $1,301,964 with a category attached, or 97.8%. Stryker accounts for 98.2% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $386,579 and has fallen 97.8% since, to $8,582 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 109 payments — averaging $11,945 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$1.3M
- Synthes GmbH$16K
- VB Spine LLC$3K
- Wenzel Spine, Inc.$3K
- Mighty Oak Medical$500
- Medtronic$364
- plus $676 from 5 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $1250.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$5K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,273,27098%
- Consulting fees$5000%
- Speaking & faculty fees$13,1251%
- Travel & lodging$10,2991%
- Food & beverage$4,7700%
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 | 76 | $1,277,915 |
| Synthes GmbH | 20 | $16,464 |
| VB Spine LLC | 1 | $3,419 |
| Wenzel Spine, Inc. | 1 | $2,625 |
| Mighty Oak Medical | 1 | $500 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $364 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $261 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Abbott | 1 | $101 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 2 | $63 |
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.
- TRITANIUM$1,272,950
- TRITANIUM PL$3,419
- Varilift$2,625
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$1,929
- ES2$1,656
- AERO$1,305
- SERRATO$1,305
- OASYS$1,305
- MAKO$900
- ALEUTIAN TLIF MI$341
- ALEUTIAN TLIF$341
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$175
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$175
- NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$158
- EVEREST$153
- YUKON$151
- Velys$148
- Excelsius - GPS$139
- CANOPY$122
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$109
How this compares
$1,301,964 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Cleveland
- Reuben GobezieCleveland$12M
- Wael BarsoumCleveland$8.9M
- Joseph IannottiCleveland$7.1M
- Anthony MiniaciCleveland$3.1M
- Kenneth GreeneCleveland$2.6M
- Mark FroimsonCleveland$2.5M
- Robert MolloyCleveland$2.3M
- Eric RicchettiCleveland$2.1M
- Robert GillespieCleveland$672K
- George ThompsonCleveland$420K
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.