Has Adam Polifka, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $226,870 in general payments to Adam Polifka, MD across 226 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Adam Polifka, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Adam Polifka, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Adam Polifka, MD

Neurological Surgery · Jacksonville, FLNPI 1427251230

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $199,192 of the $226,870 with a category attached, or 87.8%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 54.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $102,839 and has fallen 98.7% since, to $1,347 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$226,870in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 226 payments — averaging $1003.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$123K
Stryker$88K
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$7K
Johnson & Johnson$3K
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$2K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
plus $3K from 12 others

$127,540in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $3643.99 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Medtronic$77K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$43K
Stryker$7K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$199,19288%
Travel & lodging$18,8198%
Food & beverage$8,8394%
Education$200%

General payments by program year

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

Company	Payments	Total
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	63	$122,507
Stryker	61	$88,416
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	12	$6,781
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	35	$2,618
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	17	$2,279
Alphatec Spine, Inc	5	$1,622
Globus Medical(2 entities)	9	$1,208
Medtronic	6	$477
Viz.ai, Inc.	1	$198
Team 1, LLC	4	$197
Carlsmed, Inc.	1	$120
EBI, LLC	2	$109
Carbofix Spine Inc	2	$106
Biocomposites Inc	1	$59
Boston Scientific	2	$54
Zimmer Biomet	2	$53
CSL Behring	2	$45
Olympus America Inc.	1	$24

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$226,870 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 556 neurological surgery providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$380,518

Medicare patients

307

Services billed

849

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Other neurological surgery in Jacksonville

Stephen ParkerJacksonville$18.7M
Andrew CannestraJacksonville$1.6M
Ricardo HanelJacksonville$1.2M
Eric NottmeierJacksonville$959K
Ali ChahlaviJacksonville$855K
Bernard GuiotJacksonville$269K
Javier Garcia-BengocheaJacksonville$201K
Bradley WallaceJacksonville$169K
Eric PetersonMiami$10.1M
Brian SnellingBoca Raton$10M

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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