Walter Peppelman, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery · Harrisburg, PANPI 1558365593
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $203,092 of the $210,533 with a category attached, or 96.5%. Globus Medical accounts for 84.6% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $80,872 and has fallen 99.7% since, to $248 in 2024. 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 34 payments — averaging $6192.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$178K
- Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC$25K
- Cerapedics Inc.$4K
- CTL Medical Corporation$2K
- Stryker$934
- Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$128
- plus $206 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$203,09296%
- Consulting fees$4,2502%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5001%
- Travel & lodging$4580%
- Food & beverage$1,2331%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 10 | $178,145 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 3 | $24,947 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 5 | $4,424 |
| CTL Medical Corporation | 1 | $1,750 |
| Stryker | 10 | $934 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $128 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $121 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 2 | $61 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $25 |
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.
- REVERE 5.5 Degen Ti System$123,342
- REVERE$54,803
- REVOLUTION$8,707
- S4 ELEMENT SPINAL SYSTEM$8,518
- S4 SPINAL SYSTEM$7,721
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$2,991
- i-FACTOR Putty$1,674
- GENERAL K2M PRODUCT DISCUSSION$282
- NAV - SPINEMAP 3D NAVIGATION SOFTWARE AND INSTRUMENTATION$176
- AIRO TRUCT$176
- MagnetOs$128
- CASCADIA CERVICAL 3D$124
- Stimulan$121
How this compares
$210,533 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Calcitonin-SalmonCalcitonin,salmon,synthetic | 25 | $1,864 |
| Meloxicam | 451 | $1,693 |
| Celecoxib | 44 | $513 |
| Naproxen | 13 | $258 |
| Gabapentin | 16 | $131 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 40 | $122 |
| Cephalexin | 17 | $114 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 21 | $100 |
| Prednisone | 24 | $46 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Harrisburg
- John GrandrimoHarrisburg$176K
- William HozackBensalem$10.6M
- Jess LonnerBryn Mawr$7.8M
- Gerald WilliamsBryn Mawr$6.8M
- Mark LazarusBensalem$6.4M
- John FenlinPhiladelphia$5.9M
- Peter SharkeyKing Of Prussia$5.7M
- Alexander VaccaroPhiladelphia$4.5M
- Selene ParekhBensalem$4.5M
- Joseph AbboudPhiladelphia$3.9M
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.