Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Michael Lefkowitz

Orthopaedic Surgery Circleville, OH Medical Doctor

NPI 1932280906 CMS profile 179132

130 Morris Rd, Circleville, OH 43113

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General payments

$6,703

87 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Michael Lefkowitz of Circleville, OH is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $6,703 across 87 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 62nd percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $958 16
2024 General $607 5
2023 General $1,471 19
2022 General $609 7
2021 General $1,035 11
2020 General $947 7
2019 General $1,075 22

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Michael Lefkowitz
  • Orthopaedic Surgery median
  • Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Michael Lefkowitz were reported at $958. Among 15,343 Orthopaedic Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $563 and the middle half received between $147 and $2,717.

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Year Michael Lefkowitz Orthopaedic Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $1,075 $644 $140–$2,844 $163
2020 $947 $312 $75–$1,860 $114
2021 $1,035 $520 $117–$2,495 $132
2022 $609 $598 $128–$2,731 $149
2023 $1,471 $461 $128–$2,264 $160
2024 $607 $497 $134–$2,475 $164
2025 $958 $563 $147–$2,717 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. CDC Medical LLC $1,891 16 payments
  2. Stryker Corporation $1,115 12 payments
  3. DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $901 10 payments
  4. Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $768 6 payments
  5. Globus Medical, Inc. $411 10 payments
  6. Medtronic, Inc. $380 3 payments
  7. Medtronic USA, Inc. $281 2 payments
  8. Arthrex, Inc. $278 5 payments
  9. Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc. $184 2 payments
  10. Cosa Medical, LLC $144 2 payments
  11. Other $351 19 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $4,661 75 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $1,299 7 payments
  3. Education $743 5 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. MAKO Knees, Hips $625 4 payments
  2. NA Trauma $590 6 payments
  3. MAKO Knees, Hips $489 8 payments
  4. Persona $449 3 payments
  5. Vyrsa V1 $376 8 payments
  6. NA Orthopedics $272 3 payments
  7. VA-LCP $270 2 payments
  8. PLASMABLADE(TM) $267 2 payments
  9. ROSA $264 2 payments
  10. Avenir $185 1 payment
  11. Other $2,496 42 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 18 drugs

Part D claims

966

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$9,033

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

32.9%

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 11.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 171 $1,793
Gabapentin Generic 115 $1,153
Celecoxib Generic 28 $1,001
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 104 $999
Nabumetone Generic 87 $991
Oxycodone Hcl Generic 110 $653
Pregabalin Generic 24 $519
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl Generic 24 $326
Baclofen Generic 24 $325
Pramipexole Dihydrochloride Pramipexole Di-Hcl Brand 31 $222

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 18 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 18,934 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 90 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$220,574

Of which drugs: $6,364

Medicare patients

386

Average age 74

Services billed

7,308

234 women, 152 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 75%
Diabetes 40%
Ischemic heart disease 32%
Chronic kidney disease 28%
Depression 28%
Heart failure 21%
Atrial fibrillation 19%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Hyaluronan or derivative, euflexxa, for intra-articular injection, per dose J7323 Office 11 34 $3,229
Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 Office 265 4,112 $3,091
Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg J1100 Office 21 512 $44

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

87 reported

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What this means

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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