Andrew Cordover, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1487622429
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (46.9%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 37 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 38.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $8,158 and has fallen 63.8% since, to $2,955 in 2025.
Across 258 payments — averaging $135.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$14K
- Cerapedics Inc.$4K
- Medtronic$3K
- Spineology Inc.$3K
- Curiteva, Inc.$2K
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$2K
- plus $8K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,71214%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5004%
- Travel & lodging$11,04132%
- Food & beverage$16,35447%
- Education$650%
- Entertainment$1,1843%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 86 | $13,567 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 15 | $4,031 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 43 | $2,713 |
| Spineology Inc. | 3 | $2,637 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 2 | $2,464 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 27 | $1,514 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 6 | $1,396 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 3 | $875 |
| Arthrex | 16 | $786 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 10 | $750 |
| Stryker | 5 | $532 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 8 | $433 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $312 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 3 | $312 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $262 |
| Mirus, LLC | 2 | $241 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $234 |
| Trackx Technology, Inc. | 2 | $205 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $196 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $186 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 1 | $175 |
| Ossdsign USA Incorporated | 1 | $134 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $132 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $109 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $85 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 1 | $66 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $65 |
| Convatec Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Wenzel Spine, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| 4web, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| BD | 1 | $20 |
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.
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$11,500
- Pulse$2,869
- OptiMesh Interbody Fusion System$2,192
- XLIF$1,828
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$1,658
- Handpiece Power System$1,350
- ALIF$1,288
- TLIF$1,200
- ALLOGRAFT$1,065
- Excelsius - GPS$777
- CD HORIZON$553
- O-ARM-ST$491
- Excelsius Robotics System$459
- NAVIGATION INSTRUMENTS$450
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$445
- Irrisept$312
- Magellan$234
- EUROPA Pedicle Screw System$226
- CYGNUS Anterior Cervical Plate$226
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$201
How this compares
$34,855 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 319 orthopaedic surgery providers in Alabama.
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 Birmingham
- Jeffrey DugasBirmingham$11.5M
- Benton EmblomBirmingham$3M
- Herrick SiegelBirmingham$1.2M
- Kenneth MooreBirmingham$342K
- Joseph SherrillBirmingham$221K
- Jonathan QuadeBirmingham$217K
- Ginger BryantBirmingham$209K
- Marcus RothermichBirmingham$207K
- Daniel KimBirmingham$147K
- Eugene BrabstonBirmingham$117K
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.