William Sutherland, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Portsmouth, NHNPI 1942265418
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.8% of the total across 42 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 17 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,374 and has fallen 89.9% since, to $139 in 2025.
Across 42 payments — averaging $99.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$784
- Stryker$650
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$418
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$386
- Bioventus LLC$325
- Acumed LLC$220
- plus $1K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,157100%
- Education$80%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 7 | $784 |
| Stryker | 6 | $650 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 4 | $418 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $386 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $325 |
| Acumed LLC | 2 | $220 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $191 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $162 |
| Abbott | 1 | $161 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $149 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $147 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $141 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $138 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $57 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
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.
- Stimrouter Implantable Kit$178
- INSPACE$175
- EVOS$161
- PROCLAIM$161
- LINVATEC HIP PRESERVATION SYSTEM$149
- HALL POWER$149
- LINVATEC SHOULDER ARTHROSCOPY$149
- Irrisept$147
- Durolane$147
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$143
- REGENETEN Shoulder$140
- SERRATO$139
- Geminus$138
- Align$138
- IJS$138
- Implate$138
- MOTIONSENSE DIGITAL GONIOMETER$135
- EVOS MINI$131
- TAPESTRY$125
- Iovera$123
How this compares
$4,165 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 141 orthopaedic surgery providers in New Hampshire.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 68 | $1,583 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 93 | $632 |
| Gabapentin | 34 | $443 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 29 | $281 |
| Methylprednisolone | 25 | $182 |
| Meloxicam | 59 | $178 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 51 | $159 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 13 | $116 |
| Prednisone | 35 | $86 |
| Amoxicillin | 73 | $48 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 17 | $34 |
| Diazepam | 16 | $21 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Portsmouth
- Akhilesh SastryPortsmouth$966K
- Mayo NoerdlingerPortsmouth$529K
- Michael MorwoodPortsmouth$506K
- Theodore GuildPortsmouth$4K
- Brian BarryPortsmouth$4K
- Ryan LabellePortsmouth$4K
- John-Erik BellLebanon$528K
- Ira ParsonsSomersworth$245K
- Alexander OremLebanon$215K
- David RichardsNashua$122K
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.