Thomas Scharschmidt
Orthopaedic Surgery · Columbus, OHNPI 1639399918
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $324,599 of the $403,055 with a category attached, or 80.5%. Stryker accounts for 67.1% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. 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 324 payments — averaging $1244.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$270K
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$49K
- Onkos Surgical, Inc.$35K
- Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc.$28K
- Prosidyan, Inc$12K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$8K
- plus $704 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$324,59981%
- Speaking & faculty fees$25,9566%
- Travel & lodging$46,47812%
- Food & beverage$5,8101%
- Gifts$2120%
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 | 234 | $270,469 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 33 | $48,884 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 28 | $35,102 |
| Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 18 | $28,291 |
| Prosidyan, Inc | 2 | $12,000 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $7,605 |
| Zavation Medical Products, LLC | 1 | $500 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $201 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 2 | $3 |
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.
- GMRS$149,747
- RESTORATION$81,028
- MAKO$70,701
- TRIATHLON$57,529
- Turalio$48,284
- ELEOS LIMB SALVAGE SYSTEM$34,675
- TRITANIUM$24,759
- ROMVIMZA$24,517
- DALL-MILES$18,154
- INSIGNIA$16,638
- ACCOLADE$11,513
- Fibergraft BG Matrix$10,500
- AEQUALIS$8,600
- SCOPIS ENT$8,100
- XPRESS ENT DILATION SYSTEM$8,100
- TGS GUIDEWIRE$8,100
- USS$7,605
- PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS$5,549
- TRIDENT$4,000
- REJUVENATE$2,000
How this compares
$403,055 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 794 orthopaedic surgery providers in Ohio.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Columbus
- Safdar KhanColumbus$744K
- Benjamin TaylorColumbus$373K
- Sharat KusumaColumbus$137K
- Nathaniel LongColumbus$133K
- Reuben GobezieCleveland$12M
- Gregory BerletWorthington$9.6M
- Wael BarsoumCleveland$8.9M
- Brian CohenChillicothe$8.8M
- Joseph IannottiCleveland$7.1M
- John SontichYoungstown$3.6M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.