Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-06-30 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

BRADLEY R MERK

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Orthopaedic Surgery

NPI
1740214881
CMS profile
123909
Location
CHICAGO, IL

General Payments · PY2019–2025

$81,226.11

  • Reported across 86 records
  • CMS publication 2026-06-30

Latest program year · PY2025

$12,957.54

14 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Consulting Fee $12,375.00 6
Food and Beverage $582.54 8

By paying entity

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Stryker Corporation $12,937.78 13
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $19.76 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2019 $33,302.17 24
PY2020 $14,987.35 4
PY2021 $6,649.17 10
PY2022 $8,736.60 10
PY2023 $2,031.93 13
PY2024 $2,561.35 11
PY2025 $12,957.54 14

Payment records · PY2025 (14)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2025 201920202021202220232024 Record-level detail is published for PY2025; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $19.76 07/25/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1174115890 CMS
Stryker Corporation $2,250.00 02/21/2025 Consulting Fee Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227752241 CMS
Stryker Corporation $2,475.00 02/21/2025 Consulting Fee Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227752245 CMS
Stryker Corporation $1,800.00 02/26/2025 Consulting Fee Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227752249 CMS
Stryker Corporation $70.11 04/16/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227752253 CMS
Stryker Corporation $40.32 04/18/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227752257 CMS
Stryker Corporation $12.87 04/28/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227752262 CMS
Stryker Corporation $95.81 05/07/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227752266 CMS
Stryker Corporation $2,250.00 06/13/2025 Consulting Fee Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227752270 CMS
Stryker Corporation $1,350.00 07/25/2025 Consulting Fee Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227752274 CMS
Stryker Corporation $2,250.00 08/22/2025 Consulting Fee Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227752279 CMS
Stryker Corporation $51.18 08/27/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227752283 CMS
Stryker Corporation $185.78 10/17/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227752288 CMS
Stryker Corporation $106.71 10/18/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227752293 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-06-30
Program years on this page
2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024 , PY2025
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2025_P06302026_06032026.csv

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