RxDoctor Payments Data

William Tyndall, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Altoona, PANPI 1225133424

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $12,347 of the $18,265 with a category attached, or 67.6%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Corentec America Inc at 53.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $12,632 and has fallen 94.2% since, to $732 in 2025.

$18,265in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 55 payments — averaging $332.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Corentec America Inc$10K
  • Smith+Nephew$4K
  • Catalyst Orthoscience$3K
  • Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC$821
  • Arthrex$158
  • Amgen$139
  • plus $147 from 4 others
$352,533in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 27 payments — averaging $13,057 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.

  • Smith+Nephew$193K
  • Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$148K
  • Pfizer$11K
  • Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation$908

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$12,34768%
  • Travel & lodging$3,94922%
  • Food & beverage$1,94511%
  • Education$240%

General payments by program year

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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.

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.

How this compares

$18,265 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,048 orthopaedic surgery providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$256,915
Medicare patients
457
Services billed
9,927

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Celecoxib311$8,287
Cefadroxil148$1,622
Oxycodone Hcl156$757
Ondansetron Hcl190$617
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen62$432
Cefazolin Sodium45$344
Dexamethasone Sodium PhosphateDexamethasone Sodium Phosp/Pf41$264
Meloxicam30$103
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen17$91
Tramadol Hcl28$65
Amoxicillin34$39

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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