William Seitz, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Cleveland, OHNPI 1477599728
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $15,488 of the $24,515 with a category attached, or 63.2%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. at 48.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $8,604 and has fallen 97.1% since, to $251 in 2025.
Across 31 payments — averaging $790.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Akcea Therapeutics, Inc.$12K
- Medartis Inc.$7K
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$2K
- Pfizer$1K
- Stryker$554
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$433
- plus $2K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$15,48863%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,20025%
- Food & beverage$2,82812%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $11,900 |
| Medartis Inc. | 4 | $7,196 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $1,500 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $1,300 |
| Stryker | 4 | $554 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $433 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $306 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $282 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $210 |
| Biocircuit Technologies Inc | 1 | $150 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $133 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $131 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $117 |
| Osteomed LLC | 1 | $104 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $100 |
| Axogen | 1 | $100 |
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.
- APTUS$7,110
- TEGSEDI$4,900
- HTX-011$1,500
- VYNDAQEL$1,300
- INTEGRA$528
- ACUMED$398
- XIAFLEX$350
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$176
- PRIMATRIX$176
- VARIAX$171
- EVOLVE$161
- Panta 2$150
- Nerve Tape$150
- DYNACORD$150
- FMS Duo$150
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$141
- Checkpoint Stimulators$117
- EXT-HPS$104
- VA-LCP PLATES & SCREWS$101
- Geminus$100
How this compares
$24,515 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 794 orthopaedic surgery providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 13 | $95 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Cleveland
- Reuben GobezieCleveland$12M
- Wael BarsoumCleveland$8.9M
- Joseph IannottiCleveland$7.1M
- Anthony MiniaciCleveland$3.1M
- Kenneth GreeneCleveland$2.6M
- Mark FroimsonCleveland$2.5M
- Robert MolloyCleveland$2.3M
- Eric RicchettiCleveland$2.1M
- Thomas MrozCleveland$1.3M
- Robert GillespieCleveland$672K
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.