Has Thomas Zdeblick, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,063,618 in general payments to Thomas Zdeblick, MD across 68 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 Thomas Zdeblick, 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 Thomas Zdeblick, 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.

Thomas Zdeblick, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Madison, WINPI 1003870668

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,063,023 of the $1,063,618 with a category attached, or 99.9%. Medtronic accounts for 100.0% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $444,539 and has fallen 87.3% since, to $56,465 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in WI 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.

$1,063,618in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 68 payments — averaging $15,641 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$1.1M
Unify Medical$197
Stryker$195

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$1,063,023100%
Food & beverage$5950%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	65	$1,063,226
Unify Medical	1	$197
Stryker	2	$195

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.

PRESTIGE$384,739
CD HORIZON$344,646
CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$318,539
ZPLATE$9,838
ZPLATE II ANTERIOR FIXATION SYSTEM$3,294
PREMIER(TM) ANTERIOR CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$1,638
Amplio$197
PYRENEES CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$175
MAZOR X SYSTEM$156

How this compares

$1,063,618 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 498 orthopaedic surgery providers in Wisconsin.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$39,433

Medicare patients

Services billed

151

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 Madison

Richard IllgenMadison$6.1M
Clifford TribusMadison$1.4M
Brian NickelMadison$211K
Mitchell KuhlMadison$141K
Kenneth NoonanMadison$100K
Jeffrey HenstenburgMadison$61K
Christopher DomesMadison$46K
Sara GalliMadison$32K
Andrew SheeanMadison$31K
Robert ChurchillGrafton$7.7M

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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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