Orthopedic Surgery in Indiana
12 providers, $11,795 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 orthopedic surgery clinicians in Indiana
Across 12 orthopedic surgery clinicians in Indiana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,401,111 in total — an average of $116,759 each, of which $111,478 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
- 1Scott AndrewsMerrillville$4,215
- 2Joseph KoscielniakMerrillville$2,671
- 3Jonathan SurdamBloomington$2,202
- 4Thomas JosephPrinceton$1,590
- 5John GuzzoCrown Point$951
- 6Robin MendelsohnGreencastle$167
- 7Ross MarburgerEvansville$0
- 8Kishan ChandHammond$0
- 9James HeinrichEvansville$0
- 10James RickertBedford$0
- 11Jon SieberIndianapolis$0
- 12Gene FedorHobart$0