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

Robert Kulwin

Orthopaedic Surgery Cincinnati, OH Medical Doctor

NPI 1740692359 CMS profile 4220740

11140 Montgomery Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45249

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General payments

$43,129

165 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, Robert Kulwin of Cincinnati, OH is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $43,129 across 165 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 88th 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 $17,248 41
2024 General $11,310 42
2023 General $3,113 24
2022 General $4,870 32
2021 General $4,426 19
2020 General $2,150 6
2019 General $13 1

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Robert Kulwin were reported at $17,248. 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 Robert Kulwin Orthopaedic Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $13 $644 $140–$2,844 $163
2020 $2,150 $312 $75–$1,860 $114
2021 $4,426 $520 $117–$2,495 $132
2022 $4,870 $598 $128–$2,731 $149
2023 $3,113 $461 $128–$2,264 $160
2024 $11,310 $497 $134–$2,475 $164
2025 $17,248 $563 $147–$2,717 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. PolyNovo North America LLC $13,365 12 payments
  2. Stryker Corporation $11,849 83 payments
  3. Paragon 28, Inc. $6,416 4 payments
  4. Arthrex, Inc. $4,986 33 payments
  5. Legacy Ortho LLC $3,979 13 payments
  6. Medline Industries, Inc. $904 6 payments
  7. Medwest Associates $370 1 payment
  8. Extremity Medical $294 1 payment
  9. DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $292 5 payments
  10. Next Science LLC $266 1 payment
  11. Other $408 6 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $18,506 8 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $11,558 35 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $8,091 117 payments
  4. Education $4,964 4 payments
  5. Gift $10 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. NOVOSORB BTM $13,365 12 payments
  2. PORTFOLIO $6,240 1 payment
  3. ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE $2,318 6 payments
  4. INBONE $1,903 10 payments
  5. INFINITY $1,614 16 payments
  6. PROPHECY $1,393 10 payments
  7. PROSTEP $1,386 5 payments
  8. ORTHOLOC 3DI $1,243 8 payments
  9. INVISION $1,188 7 payments
  10. AUGMENT INJECTABLE $666 6 payments
  11. Other $6,715 66 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 · 3 drugs

Part D claims

69

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$710

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

73.9%

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 32 $392
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 19 $212
Methylprednisolone Generic 18 $106

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 · 77 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$78,355

Of which drugs: $50

Medicare patients

357

Average age 73

Services billed

1,270

233 women, 124 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 70%
Arthritis 62%
Ischemic heart disease 28%
Diabetes 25%
Osteoporosis 25%
Depression 20%
Cancer 16%
Heart failure 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, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 Office 14 66 $50

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

165 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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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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