Vahid Entezari
Orthopaedic Surgery · Philadelphia, PANPI 1073889051
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $317,081 of the $393,414 with a category attached, or 80.6%. Stryker accounts for 93.1% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $125,188, more than ten times the $621 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in PA 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 397 payments — averaging $990.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$366K
- Synthes USA Products LLC$10K
- Synthes GmbH$3K
- Arthrex$3K
- Tigon Medical LLC$3K
- KCI USA, Inc.$2K
- plus $6K from 16 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $18,780 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.
- Encore Medical, LP$94K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$317,08181%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,5001%
- Travel & lodging$56,97614%
- Food & beverage$11,2413%
- Education$4,6161%
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 | 324 | $366,276 |
| Synthes USA Products LLC | 7 | $9,903 |
| Synthes GmbH | 5 | $3,229 |
| Arthrex | 11 | $3,073 |
| Tigon Medical LLC | 3 | $2,835 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $2,152 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $1,606 |
| Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc. | 4 | $1,352 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 13 | $702 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $362 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $289 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 2 | $284 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $247 |
| Dunamis Medical, LLC | 1 | $195 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 3 | $179 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $161 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $160 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $153 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $111 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $97 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $35 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$227,722
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$117,179
- TORNIER PERFORM ANATOMIC AUGMENTED GLENOID$89,488
- TORNIER PERFORM REVERSED GLENOID$77,875
- TORNIER PERFORM REVERSED AUGMENTED GLENOID$65,625
- MAKO$45,970
- AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$44,900
- SIMPLICITI$43,863
- TORNIER FLEX$25,000
- INSPACE$14,003
- AEQUALIS REVERSED II$12,500
- LCP$10,250
- PREVENA RESTOR ROTO-FORM$2,125
- GMRS$1,650
- REUNION$1,646
- SYSTEM 9 CD NXT$1,581
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$420
- INHANCE$231
- AEQUALIS FLEX REVIVE$170
- Surgiphor$161
How this compares
$393,414 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,048 orthopaedic surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | 14 | $22 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Philadelphia
- John FenlinPhiladelphia$5.9M
- Alexander VaccaroPhiladelphia$4.5M
- Joseph AbboudPhiladelphia$3.9M
- Samir MehtaPhiladelphia$3.6M
- Surena NamdariPhiladelphia$1.8M
- Neil ShethPhiladelphia$522K
- Amrit KhalsaPhiladelphia$475K
- Charles NelsonPhiladelphia$345K
- David GlaserPhiladelphia$176K
- Anthony NduPhiladelphia$173K
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.