Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

PAUL METZGER

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Orthopaedic Surgery

NPI
1760688378
CMS profile
1097011
Location
LINCOLNSHIRE, IL

General Payments · PY2019–2024

$5,230.22

  • Reported across 39 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$946.58

9 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

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Travel and Lodging $629.49 2
Food and Beverage $317.09 7

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2019 $388.26 4
PY2020 $448.73 7
PY2021 $2,789.34 8
PY2022 $508.28 7
PY2023 $149.03 4
PY2024 $946.58 9

Payment records · PY2024 (9)

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

Program year 2024 20192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Arthrex, Inc. $238.65 04/21/2024 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 1146553903 CMS
Arthrex, Inc. $24.00 04/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1146553901 CMS
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. $20.51 12/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1137495617 CMS
Inari Medical, Inc. $83.98 06/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1140141939 CMS
Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc $32.82 03/14/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1092757817 CMS
Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc $133.16 04/21/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1092757813 CMS
Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc $390.84 04/21/2024 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 1092757815 CMS
Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC $12.15 01/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1099944214 CMS
Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC $10.47 03/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1099944216 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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