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

Richard Ferkel

Sports Medicine Van Nuys, CA Medical Doctor

NPI 1831128230 CMS profile 355737

6815 Noble Ave, Van Nuys, CA 91405

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General payments

$58,026

157 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

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

Ownership & investment interest

$351

1 holding reported · through program year 2025

Through program year 2025, Richard Ferkel of Van Nuys, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $58,026 across 157 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $351 across 1 holding.

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 88th percentile of Sports Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

8 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $11,477 22
2024 General $8,120 22
2023 General $1,990 18
2022 General $8,014 30
2021 General $9,312 23
2020 General $16,369 26
2019 General $2,744 16
2020 Ownership $351 1

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Richard Ferkel
  • Sports Medicine median
  • Middle half of Sports Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Richard Ferkel were reported at $11,477. Among 2,404 Sports Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $664 and the middle half received between $172 and $3,055.

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Year Richard Ferkel Sports Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $2,744 $1,176 $199–$4,249 $163
2020 $16,369 $708 $96–$2,890 $114
2021 $9,312 $1,213 $152–$3,994 $132
2022 $8,014 $1,230 $159–$3,998 $149
2023 $1,990 $584 $146–$2,836 $160
2024 $8,120 $628 $163–$3,168 $164
2025 $11,477 $664 $172–$3,055 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Smith+Nephew, Inc. $44,541 91 payments
  2. Trice Medical, Inc. $6,974 11 payments
  3. Saxum Surgical, Inc. $1,675 5 payments
  4. Geistlich Pharma, North America, Inc. $1,650 1 payment
  5. DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $528 19 payments
  6. Paragon 28, Inc. $409 4 payments
  7. Vericel Corporation $397 5 payments
  8. Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. $264 1 payment
  9. MedShape, Inc. $245 1 payment
  10. Wright Medical Technology, Inc. $244 2 payments
  11. Other $1,099 17 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $40,184 20 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $6,609 107 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $6,351 21 payments
  4. Honoraria $1,650 1 payment
  5. Education $1,200 1 payment
  6. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $1,137 4 payments
  7. Royalty or License $894 3 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. DYNOMITE $11,000 3 payments
  2. Q-FIX Sports Med Shoulder $8,747 5 payments
  3. SPATIAL FRAME $8,629 4 payments
  4. FAST-FIX $8,557 2 payments
  5. Segway blade or mieye camera $5,753 8 payments
  6. Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System $3,466 6 payments
  7. Q-FIX Extremities & Limb Restoration $3,108 12 payments
  8. ACUFEX Meniscal Root Repair $1,886 6 payments
  9. NovoStitch $1,568 6 payments
  10. CAP-FIX $1,532 4 payments
  11. Other $14,164 124 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 · 4 drugs

Part D claims

159

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$4,686

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

9.4%

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
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 15 $4,156
Meloxicam Generic 76 $280
Oxycodone Hcl Generic 33 $157
Cephalexin Generic 35 $93

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 · 70 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$103,322

Of which drugs: $4,897

Medicare patients

237

Average age 73

Services billed

1,469

132 women, 105 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
Arthritis 73%
High blood pressure 64%
Ischemic heart disease 30%
Diabetes 20%
Depression 19%
Cancer 16%
Osteoporosis 16%
Chronic kidney disease 15%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg J0702 Office 11 47 $230
Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg J1100 Office 15 60 $5

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

157 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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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