Vericel Corporation: payments to clinicians
1,737 clinicians received $972,597 from Vericel Corporation in 2025; Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine is the most common specialty among the largest recipients. Most of it (59%) was compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a me, then consulting fees (16%). The largest single recipient (Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine, Connecticut) received $116,622.
| Program year | Total | Payments | Clinicians paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $972,597 | 3,218 | 1,737 |
| 2024 | $1,200,646 | 3,296 | 1,748 |
Largest recipients in 2025
| # | Clinician | Specialty | Location | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael A. Kuhn, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Middletown, CT | $116,622 |
| 2 | Deryk G. Jones, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | San Carlos, CA | $62,617 |
| 3 | Grant H. Garcia, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Seattle, WA | $62,523 |
| 4 | Jeremy Goverman, MD | Surgery, Surgical Critical Care | Boston, MA | $38,043 |
| 5 | Brett Coby Hartman, D.O. | Plastic Surgery | Pittsburgh, PA | $36,246 |
| 6 | Joseph J. Czarnecki, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Woburn, MA | $28,245 |
| 7 | Robert L. Parisien, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | New York, NY | $27,759 |
| 8 | Brian Robert Waterman, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Winston Salem, NC | $27,725 |
| 9 | Braiden Heaps, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery | Bountiful, UT | $23,645 |
| 10 | Robert Nelson Mead, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Panama City, FL | $23,151 |
| 11 | Matthew Alan Tao, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | New York, NY | $22,076 |
| 12 | Steven Kahn | Surgery | Charleston, SC | $16,655 |
| 13 | Elan J. Golan, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Snellville, GA | $16,460 |
| 14 | Neil Sudhir Kumar, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Brandon, FL | $15,427 |
| 15 | Mitchell John Stroh, DO | Orthopaedic Surgery | Edison, NJ | $14,712 |
| 16 | Michael David Kuhn, MD | Internal Medicine | Syracuse, NY | $13,806 |
| 17 | Kevin Andrew Belanger, PAC | Physician Assistant | Manchester, CT | $13,394 |
| 18 | Michael B. Banffy, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Los Angeles, CA | $11,496 |
| 19 | Gregory Joseph Purnell Jr., MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Morgantown, WV | $11,422 |
| 20 | Lucy A. Wibbenmeyer, MD | Surgery, Surgical Critical Care | Iowa City, IA | $10,005 |
| 21 | Joseph Thomas Lanzi Jr., M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery | El Paso, TX | $9,574 |
| 22 | Justin Routman | Anesthesiology | Birmingham, AL | $9,369 |
| 23 | William Preston Hewgley, MD | Surgery, Trauma Surgery | Birmingham, AL | $8,957 |
| 24 | Ryan Robert Fader, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Edina, MN | $8,947 |
| 25 | Seth Lawrence Sherman, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Stanford, CA | $8,693 |
| 26 | Tom Minas, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | West Palm Beach, FL | $8,539 |
| 27 | James Hwang | Surgery, Trauma Surgery | Birmingham, AL | $8,375 |
| 28 | Nicole Mahoney, M.D. | Family Medicine | Temple, TX | $7,972 |
| 29 | Judd Charles Allen, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Saratoga Springs, UT | $7,401 |
| 30 | Brooke Alissa Burkey, M.D. | Plastic Surgery | Philadelphia, PA | $7,309 |
| 31 | Arpana Jain, MD | Surgery, Surgical Critical Care | Tucson, AZ | $7,000 |
| 32 | Geoffrey S. Van Thiel, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Rockford, IL | $6,649 |
| 33 | James Lee Pace, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Farmington, CT | $6,624 |
| 34 | Steven Sandoval, M.D. | Surgery, Surgical Critical Care | Stony Brook, NY | $6,527 |
| 35 | David C. Flanigan, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Columbus, OH | $6,490 |
| 36 | Caesar A. Ricci III, M.D. | Surgery, Surgical Critical Care | Fort Worth, TX | $6,105 |
| 37 | Cassandra Alda Lee, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Sacramento, CA | $5,650 |
| 38 | Johanna M. Oda, PA-C | Physician Assistant | Los Angeles, CA | $5,650 |
| 39 | Alicia Lintner, MSN, CRNP-BC, CCRN | Nurse Practitioner, Acute Care | Mobile, AL | $4,886 |
| 40 | Corbin James Brokaw, PA-C | Physician Assistant, Surgical | Seattle, WA | $4,882 |
| 41 | Christopher Sy Lee, M.D., M.B.A | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Burbank, CA | $4,754 |
| 42 | Philip Hyungjin Chang, M.D. | Surgery | New York, NY | $4,550 |
| 43 | Majel Victoria Purvis Miles, M.D. | Surgery | New Orleans, LA | $4,500 |
| 44 | Patrick Neal Siparsky, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Bowling Green, OH | $4,473 |
| 45 | Jonathan Andrew Black, MD | Surgery, Trauma Surgery | Birmingham, AL | $4,200 |
| 46 | Matthew Carl Sardelli, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Grand Blanc, MI | $4,065 |
| 47 | Derek Culnan, MD | Plastic Surgery | Jackson, MS | $3,889 |
| 48 | Sage M. Norwood, PA-C | Physician Assistant | Rockford, IL | $3,792 |
| 49 | Nicholas Iung Kennedy, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Yakima, WA | $3,763 |
| 50 | Justin T. Newman, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Vail, CO | $3,731 |
| 51 | Kelley Jo Farner, NP | Nurse Practitioner, Family | Jackson, MS | $3,675 |
| 52 | Beretta Craft-Coffman, P.A.-C | Physician Assistant, Surgical | Canton, GA | $3,342 |
| 53 | Jay Deimel, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Erie, PA | $3,295 |
| 54 | Ryan Krochak, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Garden City, NY | $3,127 |
| 55 | Alexander Neal Kurjatko, M.D. | Surgery | Iowa City, IA | $2,868 |
| 56 | Matthew John Kraeutler, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Paterson, NJ | $2,672 |
| 57 | Terry Lin, PA-C | Physician Assistant, Surgical | New York, NY | $2,540 |
| 58 | Ronak Patel, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Hinsdale, IL | $2,517 |
| 59 | Neil T. Katz, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | La Mirada, CA | $2,464 |
| 60 | Wayne K. Gersoff, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery | Denver, CO | $2,070 |
| 61 | Paul Norio Morton, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Honolulu, HI | $2,032 |
| 62 | Rosemary Elizabeth Paine, RN, FNP-BC | Nurse Practitioner, Family | Portland, ME | $1,997 |
| 63 | Kai Mithoefer, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Ded Ham, MA | $1,875 |
| 64 | Teigen Goodeill, DO | Orthopaedic Surgery | Corvallis, OR | $1,661 |
| 65 | Guillem Gonzalez-Lomas, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | New York, NY | $1,650 |
| 66 | Michael T. Lee, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery | Phoenix, AZ | $1,634 |
| 67 | Jillian Jewett Pasciucco, DNP, FNP-BC | Nurse Practitioner | Boston, MA | $1,621 |
| 68 | Jacob G. Calcei, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery | Cleveland, OH | $1,568 |
| 69 | Stephan L. Pro, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Kansas City, KS | $1,547 |
| 70 | Kirk James Hippensteel, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Phoenix, AZ | $1,541 |
| 71 | Ryan Hunter Barnes | Orthopaedic Surgery | Prince George, VA | $1,500 |
| 72 | Anthony Paul Fiegen, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,500 |
| 73 | Steven B. Singleton, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery | Fort Worth, TX | $1,494 |
| 74 | Kevin Blake Freedman, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Bryn Mawr, PA | $1,484 |
| 75 | Jason Ramsey, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Lubbock, TX | $1,371 |
| 76 | Lucas Ryan Wymore, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Riverside, CA | $1,355 |
| 77 | Justin J. Mitchell, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery | Onalaska, WI | $1,350 |
| 78 | Christian Gonzalez-Torres, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Sebring, FL | $1,341 |
| 79 | Lisa Kaplin, D.O | Orthopaedic Surgery | Rockledge, PA | $1,288 |
| 80 | Eric D. Wicks, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Lakeland, FL | $1,246 |
| 81 | Justin Kaeen Chang, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery | Lompoc, CA | $1,227 |
| 82 | Ali Qadeer, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery | Houston, TX | $1,219 |
| 83 | Satish Hari Chandrasekhar, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Corpus Christi, TX | $1,208 |
| 84 | Allison Blumenthal, D.O. | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Van Nuys, CA | $1,188 |
| 85 | James R. Bailey, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Santa Barbara, CA | $1,179 |
| 86 | Alexander Kent Meininger, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Steamboat Springs, CO | $1,154 |
| 87 | Michael Dow Gilmore, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery | Pensacola, FL | $1,138 |
| 88 | Robert L. Kalb, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Bucyrus, OH | $1,117 |
| 89 | James C. Tucker Jr., M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Little Rock, AR | $1,092 |
| 90 | Matthew Richard Moralle, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Lakeland, FL | $1,069 |
| 91 | Lawrence Kevin O'Malley II, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery | Little Rock, AR | $1,015 |
| 92 | Ajith Malige | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | San Francisco, CA | $1,003 |
| 93 | Nicholas Dyson Casscells | Orthopaedic Surgery | Washington, DC | $994.88 |
| 94 | Srikanth Mudiganty, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Durant, OK | $987.22 |
| 95 | Omar Rahman | Orthopaedic Surgery | Santa Monica, CA | $953.57 |
| 96 | Joey A. Lamartina II, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Covington, LA | $952.04 |
| 97 | Lauren Lewis, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery, Foot and Ankle Surgery | Pittsburgh, PA | $928.38 |
| 98 | Mark S. Greenberg, MD | Specialist | Irving, TX | $911.70 |
| 99 | Lindsay Ashford | Physician Assistant | Burbank, CA | $878.15 |
| 100 | Robert William Lindeman, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | League City, TX | $873.07 |
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