Anthony Albert, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · St Petersburg, FLNPI 1003914284
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,620 of the $4,317 with a category attached, or 83.9%. It is spread thinly across 31 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $5,564.
Across 84 payments — averaging $51.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$784
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$697
- Stryker$567
- Smith+Nephew$408
- Johnson & Johnson$353
- Life Spine, Inc.$188
- plus $1K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$67516%
- Travel & lodging$221%
- Food & beverage$3,62084%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 10 | $784 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 2 | $697 |
| Stryker | 10 | $567 |
| Smith+Nephew | 16 | $408 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $353 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 1 | $188 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $187 |
| Solventum Corporation | 3 | $182 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $180 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $131 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 4 | $81 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $48 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $43 |
| MVP Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $39 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Amgen | 2 | $34 |
| Carbofix Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $29 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $17 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $15 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $15 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $11 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $6 |
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.
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$629
- VARIAX$148
- INFRAVISION IMAGING SYSTEM$135
- ACTISHIELD CF$119
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$119
- EXPAREL$118
- CellerateRx$110
How this compares
$4,317 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,263 orthopaedic surgery providers in Florida.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 75 | $2,139 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 41 | $652 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 73 | $499 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 81 | $443 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 47 | $351 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 49 | $234 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 11 | $214 |
| Meloxicam | 93 | $197 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 19 | $175 |
| Methylprednisolone | 22 | $123 |
| Amoxicillin | 29 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in St Petersburg
- Brett BolhofnerSt Petersburg$3M
- Andrew CooperClearwater$102M
- Richard HynesMelbourne$34.8M
- Mark FrankleTemple Terrace$31M
- Roy SandersTemple Terrace$19.6M
- George HaidukewychOrlando$10M
- Robert SantrockFernandina Beach$7.3M
- Martin RocheFt. Lauderdale$7.1M
- Steven LyonsTampa$6.7M
- Thomas BernasekTemple Terrace$6.4M
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.