Wellington Hsu, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1235335050
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,275,130 of the $1,675,924 with a category attached, or 76.1%. Stryker accounts for 90.1% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $552,373 and has fallen 94.2% since, to $31,951 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in IL 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 395 payments — averaging $4242.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$1.5M
- Bioventus LLC$45K
- Medtronic$44K
- VB Spine LLC$25K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$21K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$18K
- plus $12K from 15 others
Across 17 payments — averaging $3224.49 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.
- Medtronic$34K
- Cerapedics Inc.$21K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,275,13076%
- Consulting fees$311,03219%
- Speaking & faculty fees$32,5882%
- Grants$6690%
- Travel & lodging$39,2962%
- Food & beverage$17,2111%
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(2 entities) | 212 | $1,510,304 |
| Bioventus LLC | 22 | $45,265 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 51 | $44,060 |
| VB Spine LLC | 8 | $24,721 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 44 | $20,833 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 10 | $18,456 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 3 | $3,185 |
| Collagen Matrix, Inc | 3 | $3,000 |
| Geistlich Pharma, North America, Inc. | 1 | $1,500 |
| Synthes GmbH | 3 | $1,250 |
| Zsfab, Inc. | 1 | $900 |
| Spineology Inc. | 5 | $612 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 5 | $339 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 10 | $318 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 3 | $243 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $234 |
| Inion Inc | 2 | $199 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $155 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 2 | $139 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 3 | $92 |
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.
- TRITANIUM$1,383,193
- ES2$58,126
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$49,739
- SERRATO$37,709
- RAVINE LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$37,005
- ES2 SPINAL SYSTEM$33,507
- XIA$30,031
- AERO$29,237
- MYSPINE$19,944
- AIRO$18,000
- BIOLOGICS$16,233
- ARIA$13,917
- GRAFTON$13,536
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$13,322
- CAYMAN PLATE SYSTEM$12,879
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$11,963
- OsteoAMP$10,676
- GRAFTONAND GRAFTON PLUSDEMINERALIZED BONE MATRIX (DBM)$10,118
- CANYON RETRACTOR SYSTEMS$9,750
- INFUSE BONE GRAFT$9,588
How this compares
$1,675,924 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 844 orthopaedic surgery providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 28 | $238 |
| Celecoxib | 15 | $225 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 22 | $181 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 18 | $100 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Chicago
- Aaron RosenbergChicago$12.4M
- Anish KadakiaChicago$2.1M
- Ken YamaguchiChicago$1.7M
- Guido MarraChicago$1.2M
- Hue LuuChicago$1.1M
- Alpesh PatelChicago$917K
- Samuel StulbergChicago$852K
- Richard BergerChicago$618K
- Ari KazChicago$343K
- Steven GitelisChicago$324K
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.