Vithal Shendge, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Toledo, OHNPI 1649502121
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $4,285 of the $6,813 with a category attached, or 62.9%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smith+Nephew at 27.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,866, 2.4 times the $775 reported in 2019.
Across 62 payments — averaging $109.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$1K
- Arthrex$669
- Acumed LLC$485
- Zimmer Biomet$235
- plus $570 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,28563%
- Food & beverage$2,52837%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 11 | $1,864 |
| Stryker | 20 | $1,510 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 8 | $1,479 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $669 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $485 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $235 |
| My01 Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $132 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $84 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 2 | $45 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $29 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Vertex | 1 | $15 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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.
- AMISTEM$1,208
- MAKO$862
- RI.HIP NAVIGATION$762
- OR3O Dual Mobility$762
- Anthology$762
- Acu-Loc/Acu-Loc 2 Wrist Plating System$485
- TAPESTRY$142
- MY01 Continuous Compartmental Pressure Monitor$132
- Taylor Spatial Frame$120
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$119
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$119
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$119
- GMK SPHERE$112
- AQUAMANTYS$111
How this compares
$6,813 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 794 orthopaedic surgery providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ibuprofen | 13 | $131 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 16 | $113 |
| Cephalexin | 15 | $84 |
| Amoxicillin | 14 | $7 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Toledo
- Reuben GobezieCleveland$12M
- Gregory BerletWorthington$9.6M
- Wael BarsoumCleveland$8.9M
- Brian CohenChillicothe$8.8M
- Joseph IannottiCleveland$7.1M
- John SontichYoungstown$3.6M
- Anthony MiniaciCleveland$3.1M
- David WelkerMiamisburg$2.8M
- Kenneth GreeneCleveland$2.6M
- Mark FroimsonCleveland$2.5M
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.