Alvaro Cabezas, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Hagerstown, MDNPI 1497950620
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 99 payments — averaging $35.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$329
- Stryker$316
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$157
- Johnson & Johnson$123
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$109
- plus $729 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,20034%
- Food & beverage$2,16562%
- Education$1294%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 23 | $1,732 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 18 | $329 |
| Stryker | 10 | $316 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $157 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $123 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $109 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 7 | $105 |
| CSL Behring | 3 | $96 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 4 | $87 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $82 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $69 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $49 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| ERMI LLC | 2 | $45 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC | 1 | $34 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $16 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $11 |
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
$3,493 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 378 orthopaedic surgery providers in Maryland.
Medicare billing
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 orthopaedic surgery in Hagerstown
- Mark MyersonBaltimore$10.5M
- David DaluryTowson$8.1M
- Anand MurthiBaltimore$5.4M
- Timothy CoddTowson$3.7M
- Khaled KebaishBaltimore$3.5M
- Hamid HassanzadehBethesda$2M
- Michael AinLutherville$1.6M
- Paul SponsellerBaltimore$1.5M
- Shawn StandardBaltimore$1.4M
- Ronald DelanoisBaltimore$1.2M
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.