William Jaffe
Orthopaedic Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1215033626
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $658,783 of the $661,196 with a category attached, or 99.6%. Stryker accounts for 97.1% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $298,283 and has fallen 98.1% since, to $5,524 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in NY 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 223 payments — averaging $2965.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$642K
- Omnilife Science, Inc$7K
- Corin USA$7K
- Conmed Corporation$6K
- Innovation Technologies Inc$73
Across 2 payments — averaging $3600.00 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.
- Corin USA$7K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$658,783100%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1240%
- Travel & lodging$2,0390%
- Food & beverage$2510%
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 | 217 | $642,100 |
| Omnilife Science, Inc | 3 | $6,900 |
| Corin USA | 1 | $6,600 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $5,524 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $73 |
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.
- PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS$308,230
- MAKO$187,616
- TRIATHLON$47,500
- NONE$43,839
- NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$14,400
- TRIDENT$5,000
- SCORPIO$4,250
- IVS - BONE CEMENTS - SPINEPLEX$4,000
- NA$2,250
- RIO$1,750
- OMNIBotics 3.0$1,500
- DALL-MILES$1,000
- TRITANIUM$220
- ACCULIF$220
How this compares
$661,196 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,079 orthopaedic surgery providers in New York.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 11 | $55 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in New York
- Anthony RomeoNew York$26.8M
- Lawrence LenkeNew York$26.8M
- Edwin SuNew York$13.2M
- William RicciNew York$11.6M
- Steven HaasNew York$11.3M
- Giles ScuderiNew York$10.7M
- Joseph ZuckermanNew York$9.9M
- Evan FlatowNew York$9.6M
- Bradford ParsonsNew York$9.4M
- Geoffrey WestrichNew York$7.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.