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

Samuel Stulberg

Orthopaedic Surgery Chicago, IL Medical Doctor

NPI 1891740148 CMS profile 1157586

680 N Lake Shore Dr, Suite 1028, Chicago, IL 60611

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General payments

$851,674

74 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

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

Ownership & investment interest

$4,279,356

3 holdings reported · through program year 2025

Through program year 2025, Samuel Stulberg of Chicago, IL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $851,674 across 74 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $4,279,356 across 3 holdings.

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 98th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

10 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $373 5
2024 General $66,815 6
2023 General $65,637 4
2022 General $106,123 8
2021 General $39,641 19
2020 General $512,375 9
2019 General $60,710 23
2022 Ownership $2,487,578 1
2021 Ownership $1,687,566 1
2020 Ownership $104,211 1

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Samuel Stulberg were reported at $373. 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 Samuel Stulberg Orthopaedic Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $60,710 $644 $140–$2,844 $163
2020 $512,375 $312 $75–$1,860 $114
2021 $39,641 $520 $117–$2,495 $132
2022 $106,123 $598 $128–$2,731 $149
2023 $65,637 $461 $128–$2,264 $160
2024 $66,815 $497 $134–$2,475 $164
2025 $373 $563 $147–$2,717 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Aesculap AG $450,741 1 payment
  2. Stryker Corporation $381,973 30 payments
  3. Smith+Nephew, Inc. $10,025 1 payment
  4. Consensus Orthopedics, Inc. $7,408 19 payments
  5. Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $881 16 payments
  6. Next Science LLC $518 4 payments
  7. Think Surgical, Inc. $56 1 payment
  8. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $43 1 payment
  9. Solventum Corporation $29 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Royalty or License $837,872 38 payments
  2. Acquisitions $10,025 1 payment
  3. Food and Beverage $3,777 35 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. COLUMBUS AS $450,741 1 payment
  2. COLUMBUS $450,741 1 payment
  3. ANATO Hips $261,286 15 payments
  4. ANATO Hips $120,011 8 payments
  5. NAVIO $10,025 1 payment
  6. STRIDE UNI $10,025 1 payment
  7. Xperience $518 4 payments
  8. SurgX $518 4 payments
  9. MAKO $418 3 payments
  10. Quadrant Sparing Ringloc Acet $297 7 payments
  11. Other $1,242 22 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

140

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$779

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

0%

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
Mupirocin Generic 44 $316
Amoxicillin Generic 68 $255
Diclofenac Sodium Generic 28 $207

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 · 15 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$66,676

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

215

Average age 76

Services billed

361

150 women, 65 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 75%
High blood pressure 72%
Ischemic heart disease 30%
Osteoporosis 24%
Cancer 23%
Depression 22%
Atrial fibrillation 21%
Diabetes 19%

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

74 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

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

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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