Has Tyler Keller, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $42,942 in general payments to Tyler Keller, MD across 105 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 Tyler Keller, 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 Tyler Keller, 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.

Tyler Keller, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Louisville, KYNPI 1669738506

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $25,775 of the $42,942 with a category attached, or 60.0%. Medacta USA, Inc. accounts for 95.2% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $15,266 and has fallen 90.0% since, to $1,525 in 2025.

$42,942in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 105 payments — averaging $408.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medacta USA, Inc.$41K
Zimmer Biomet$1K
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$220
Osteoremedies, LLC$156
Johnson & Johnson$99
Smith+Nephew$95
plus $247 from 13 others

$358,118in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 69 payments — averaging $5190.12 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.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$322K
Zimmer Biomet$36K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$25,77560%
Travel & lodging$14,14933%
Food & beverage$3,0187%

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
Medacta USA, Inc.	47	$40,869
Zimmer Biomet	16	$1,256
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	15	$220
Osteoremedies, LLC	1	$156
Johnson & Johnson	5	$99
Smith+Nephew	5	$95
Si-bone, Inc.	3	$56
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$31
Alpha Orthopedic Systems	1	$27
Vertex	1	$19
Bioventus LLC	1	$16
Vericel Corporation	1	$16
Amgen	1	$15
Baudax Bio Inc.	1	$14
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$13
Medartis Inc.	1	$13
Dynasplint Systems Inc.	1	$11
Acumed LLC	1	$10
Heraeus Medical, LLC.	1	$5

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

$42,942 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 322 orthopaedic surgery providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$328,106

Medicare patients

761

Services billed

24,433

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
EliquisApixaban	26	$6,647
AmantadineAmantadine Hcl	15	$2,106
Diclofenac Sodium	43	$1,485
Celecoxib	47	$1,376
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	212	$1,339
Gabapentin	15	$753
Clindamycin Hcl	43	$373
Tramadol Hcl	98	$279
Ondansetron Hcl	83	$252
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	35	$236
Meloxicam	112	$195
Cefadroxil	79	$148
Methylprednisolone	33	$147
Amoxicillin	150	$110
Cephalexin	12	$43

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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