Orthopaedic Surgery in AE
15 providers, $48,303 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays orthopaedic surgery clinicians in AE
Across 2 orthopaedic surgery clinicians in AE who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $50,866 in total — an average of $25,433 each, of which $25,378 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Gregory LauseApo$16,427
- 2Brian BarlowFpo$5,757
- 3John CarrollApo$4,561
- 4Mathew ResnickApo$4,244
- 5Jordan HauschildApo$3,659
- 6Sean BrugmanApo$2,870
- 7Clarence SteeleFpo$2,842
- 8Henry DebellFpo$2,747
- 9Zackary JohnsonApo$1,390
- 10Matthew MengApo$1,381
- 11Casey MuellerApo$884
- 12Richard LangFpo$611
- 13Zachary AdkinsApo$412
- 14Matthew NowakApo$395
- 15David PetersonApo$124