Tim Lenters, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Byron Center, MINPI 1649211368
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (47.0%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Arthrex accounts for 81.5% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MI 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 181 payments — averaging $890.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$131K
- Limacorporate S.p.a.$20K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$6K
- Lima USA, Inc.$820
- Medwest Associates$727
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$700
- plus $1K from 7 others
Across 19 payments — averaging $2212.63 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.
- Arthrex$22K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$12K
- Innovation Technologies Inc$8K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$75,70747%
- Speaking & faculty fees$67,10042%
- Travel & lodging$13,9139%
- Food & beverage$3,2382%
- Education$1,2001%
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 | 136 | $131,391 |
| Limacorporate S.p.a. | 3 | $20,082 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 8 | $6,269 |
| Lima USA, Inc. | 4 | $820 |
| Medwest Associates | 8 | $727 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $700 |
| Zak Ortho | 7 | $425 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 2 | $249 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 4 | $200 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $106 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $93 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $66 |
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
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.
- SMR$20,818
- RIGIDLOOP$5,625
- DELTA$4,122
- VISUALIZATION$3,375
- BIOLOX DELTA$2,375
- FMS Duo$2,250
- ARTHROPLASTY INSTRUMENTS SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY & FRACTURE VIP TECHNOLOGY$875
- Velys$334
- INHANCE$231
- ARTHROPLASTY IMPLANTS SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY & FRACTURE UNIVERS$175
- ARTHROPLASTY IMPLANTS SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY & FRACTURE REVERS$134
- GLOBAL$125
- COBRA$110
How this compares
$161,158 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 829 orthopaedic surgery providers in Michigan.
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 | 11 | $24 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Byron Center
- Asheesh BediAnn Arbor$9.4M
- Jerome WiaterBeverly Hills$3.9M
- Mark PintoChelsea$3.2M
- Kyle AndersonBingham Farms$3.1M
- Stephen BartolDetroit$2.6M
- Jad KhalilSouthfield$1.9M
- Jeffrey FischgrundSouthfield$1.8M
- John BlahaAnn Arbor$1.5M
- David MarkelSouthfield$1.5M
- Christopher ChuinardTraverse City$1.4M
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.