Timothy Bhattacharyya, MD
Orthopaedic Trauma · Bethesda, MDNPI 1902897036
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (50.3%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 28.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,079 and has fallen 90.6% since, to $102 in 2025.
Across 28 payments — averaging $99.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$781
- Zimmer Biomet$611
- Philips North America LLC$600
- Stryker$242
- Johnson & Johnson$211
- Globus Medical$206
- plus $127 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$60022%
- Travel & lodging$68024%
- Food & beverage$1,39750%
- Education$1024%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $781 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 5 | $611 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $600 |
| Stryker | 4 | $242 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $211 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $206 |
| Orthalign Inc | 1 | $101 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
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.
- (9768) Other actvitities$600
- MARS 3V/3VL$206
- CREO Addition$206
- ELSA$206
- COALITION$206
- Trauma Product Portfolio$144
- ROSA$115
- GAMMA$109
- Avenir$102
- ORTHALIGN PLUS$101
How this compares
Too few orthopaedic trauma providers in Marylandto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 | $141 |
| Cephalexin | 17 | $64 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 16 | $27 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic trauma in Bethesda
- Robert BuberBethesda$534
- Andrew PollakBaltimore$2M
- Robert OtooleBaltimore$548K
- Marcus SciadiniBaltimore$510K
- Myron SlobogeanBaltimore$304K
- Greg OsgoodBaltimore$211K
- Jason NasconeBaltimore$123K
- W EglsederBaltimore$66K
- Florian HuberSalisbury$12K
- Herman JohalBaltimore$7K
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.