Has Walter Virkus, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $276,885 in general payments to Walter Virkus, MD across 153 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 Walter Virkus, 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 Walter Virkus, 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.

Walter Virkus, MD

Orthopaedic Trauma · Indianapolis, INNPI 1780663484

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (46.0%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 99.7% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $127,442, 6.3 times the $20,222 reported in 2019.

$276,885in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 153 payments — averaging $1809.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$276K
Synthes GmbH$250
Novastep Inc.$239
Zimmer Biomet$89
Johnson & Johnson$75
Illuminoss Medical, Inc.$62

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$127,36246%
Consulting fees$121,24944%
Speaking & faculty fees$2500%
Travel & lodging$22,9478%
Food & beverage$5,0772%

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	146	$276,170
Synthes GmbH	1	$250
Novastep Inc.	2	$239
Zimmer Biomet	1	$89
Johnson & Johnson	2	$75
Illuminoss Medical, Inc.	1	$62

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.

PANGEA$127,362
AXSOS$81,166
GAMMA$74,603
T2$60,476
VARIAX$51,027
HOFFMANN$41,732
PRO$33,425
ADAPT$21,982
T2 ALPHA$9,131
Actishield$3,063
ASNIS$1,900
PELVIS II$1,710
NONE$361
TRAUMA$175
PECA Bunion Correction System$148
BIO4$133
MAKO$102

How this compares

Too few orthopaedic trauma providers in Indianato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$35,530

Medicare patients

Services billed

110

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.

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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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