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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,035 in general payments to Tyler Surma, MD across 93 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 Surma, 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 Surma, 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 Surma, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Taylor, MINPI 1568878965

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,035in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 93 payments — averaging $107.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$6K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
Stryker$1K
Johnson & Johnson$418
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$84
Sanara Medtech Inc.$65

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$4,56245%
Food & beverage$4,43744%
Education$1,03610%

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
Zimmer Biomet	58	$6,432
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	12	$1,822
Stryker	16	$1,214
Johnson & Johnson	5	$418
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	1	$84
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$65

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

$10,035 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 829 orthopaedic surgery providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$260,440

Medicare patients

363

Services billed

1,549

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
Celecoxib	22	$646
Mupirocin	62	$396
Oxycodone Hcl	53	$283
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	14	$119
Meloxicam	34	$94
Tramadol Hcl	38	$86
Amoxicillin	53	$84
Clindamycin Hcl	15	$26

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Taylor

Asheesh BediAnn Arbor$9.4M
Jerome WiaterBeverly Hills$5.7M
Jad KhalilSouthfield$3.7M
Mark PintoChelsea$3.2M
Kyle AndersonBingham Farms$3.1M
Stephen BartolDetroit$2.6M
Jeffrey FischgrundSouthfield$1.8M
David MarkelSouthfield$1.7M
Richard EastonRochester Hills$1.6M
Shariff BishaiTroy$1.5M

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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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