William Hess, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Danville, PANPI 1902865934
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $26,988 of the $37,673 with a category attached, or 71.6%. Globus Medical accounts for 72.7% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $15,598 and has fallen 96.5% since, to $541 in 2025.
Across 72 payments — averaging $523.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$27K
- Stryker$6K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$403
- Novus Surgical Consultants$359
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$163
- plus $1K from 16 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $3350.00 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.
- Stryker$3K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2171%
- Consulting fees$26,98872%
- Travel & lodging$6,96918%
- Food & beverage$3,4019%
- Education$990%
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(2 entities) | 27 | $27,372 |
| Stryker | 6 | $5,930 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 11 | $1,960 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 4 | $403 |
| Novus Surgical Consultants | 3 | $359 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $163 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $147 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $133 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $126 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 1 | $112 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Implanet America, Inc. | 1 | $93 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $77 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $74 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $67 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $60 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $42 |
| Lifenet Health | 2 | $38 |
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.
- Sublaminar Band Fixation$16,425
- GENERAL K2M PRODUCT DISCUSSION$5,613
- Syndesmosis Fixation$4,725
- Quartex$4,288
- EXPEDIUM$1,762
- FORTIFY$961
- REDUCTION BANDS$225
- HILINE$217
- CellerateRx$141
- T2$138
- Mariner Deformity$137
- DJO SURGICAL$133
- UNID_PASS$126
- Sublaminar$125
- SYMPHONY$123
- ZENPEP$111
How this compares
$37,673 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | 18 | $139 |
| Prednisone | 12 | $87 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Danville
- Daniel HorwitzDanville$714K
- Michael SukDanville$270K
- Mark SeeleyDanville$193K
- Meagan FernandezDanville$179K
- 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
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.