Has Tuna Ozyurekoglu, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $24,723 in general payments to Tuna Ozyurekoglu, MD across 82 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 Tuna Ozyurekoglu, 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 Tuna Ozyurekoglu, 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.

Tuna Ozyurekoglu, MD

Hand Surgery · Louisville, KYNPI 1659365930

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $16,016 of the $24,723 with a category attached, or 64.8%. Stryker accounts for 85.7% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $17,541, 9.0 times the $1,945 reported in 2019. Among hand surgery clinicians in KY 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.

$24,723in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 82 payments — averaging $301.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$21K
Ossio Inc$2K
Alpha Orthopedic Systems$927
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$426
Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$153
Axogen$91
plus $404 from 9 others

$6,224in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 2 payments — averaging $3111.80 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.

Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$6K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$16,01665%
Travel & lodging$5,95924%
Food & beverage$1,7587%
Education$9904%

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	39	$21,197
Ossio Inc	1	$1,524
Alpha Orthopedic Systems	2	$927
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	21	$426
Checkpoint Surgical, Inc	1	$153
Axogen	1	$91
Skeletal Dynamics Inc	1	$79
Endo USA, Inc.	4	$71
Smith+Nephew	2	$65
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	3	$54
Polynovo North America LLC	2	$41
Medartis Inc.	2	$36
Acumed LLC	1	$21
Bioventus LLC	1	$19
Amgen	1	$19

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.

How this compares

$24,723 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 56 hand surgery providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$276,229

Medicare patients

584

Services billed

3,285

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	139	$544
Tramadol Hcl	101	$151
Cephalexin	18	$107
Gabapentin	18	$76
Oxycodone Hcl	27	$75
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	15	$48
Nifedipine ErNifedipine	12	$35

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other hand surgery in Louisville

Amitava GuptaLouisville$175K
Stephanie MerimeeLouisville$16K
Luke RobinsonLouisville$12K
Monica PecacheLouisville$11K
Rodrigo Moreno GarciaLouisville$10K
Michelle PalazzoLouisville$7K
Jorge Quintero PerezLouisville$7K
Elkin Galvis LeonLouisville$6K
Kjell van RoyenLouisville$6K
Yousif El-GammalLouisville$4K

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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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