Has Wayne North, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $81,616 in general payments to Wayne North, MD across 50 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 Wayne North, 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 Wayne North, 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.

Wayne North, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Detroit, MINPI 1508166513

Payments from drug & device makers

$81,616in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 50 payments — averaging $1632.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$80K
Orthosensor Inc.$880
Stryker$300
Avanos Medical$13

$14,500in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 2 payments — averaging $7250.00 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.

Zimmer Biomet$15K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$18,63086%
Travel & lodging$1,3116%
Food & beverage$9514%
Education$8084%

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	43	$80,423
Orthosensor Inc.	2	$880
Stryker	4	$300
Avanos Medical	1	$13

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

$81,616 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 829 orthopaedic surgery providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$184,776

Medicare patients

252

Services billed

452

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
Penicillin G Potassium	14	$2,184
Celecoxib	21	$489
Methocarbamol	75	$212
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	34	$195
Amoxicillin	100	$138
Doxycycline Hyclate	14	$126
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	15	$84
Oxycodone Hcl	21	$75
Methylprednisolone	14	$64
Tramadol Hcl	24	$52
Clindamycin Hcl	18	$31
Cephalexin	11	$17

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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