Has Brett Schlifka, DO received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $561,041 in general payments to Brett Schlifka, DO across 730 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 Brett Schlifka, DO 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 Brett Schlifka, DO 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.

Brett Schlifka, DO

Neurological Surgery · Wellington, FLNPI 1790728913

Payments from drug & device makers

$561,041in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 730 payments — averaging $768.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education$243K
Stryker$65K
Integrity Implants Inc.$37K
Baxter Healthcare$35K
Medtronic$33K
Globus Medical$21K
plus $126K from 54 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$280,38150%
Consulting fees$170,59730%
Speaking & faculty fees$37,7187%
Travel & lodging$35,5756%
Food & beverage$32,5776%
Education$3,6191%
Gifts$5750%

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
The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education	28	$242,941
Stryker	45	$65,310
Integrity Implants Inc.	52	$36,681
Baxter Healthcare	26	$35,317
Medtronic(2 entities)	144	$32,903
Globus Medical(2 entities)	62	$21,429
Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus	12	$19,943
Spineart USA Inc	15	$12,612
Flospine LLC	8	$11,636
Surgentec	3	$11,000
Camber Spine Technologies LLC	34	$10,936
Restor3d, Inc.	7	$10,826
Si-bone, Inc.	63	$10,020
Ulrich Medical USA, Inc.	4	$7,744
Medacta USA, Inc.	21	$7,083
Ossdsign USA Incorporated	5	$3,069
Intrinsic Therapeutics	20	$3,050
Carlsmed, Inc.	8	$2,882
Abbott	55	$2,221
Alphatec Spine, Inc	6	$2,005
Nexxt Spine LLC	8	$1,688
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	13	$1,209
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	8	$869
Cerapedics Inc.	4	$788
Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC	4	$695
Johnson & Johnson	8	$654
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	2	$438
DJO, LLC	8	$390
Prosidyan, Inc	4	$362
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc	3	$358
Osteomed LLC	3	$299
Choice Spine, LLC	2	$295
Centinel Spine, LLC	3	$288
4web, Inc.	3	$287
Spinal Elements, Inc.	2	$254
Xenix Medical LLC	1	$217
MML US, Inc.	1	$214
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	2	$181
Curiteva, Inc.	1	$168
Woven Orthopedic Technologies, LLC	1	$165
Nevro Corp.	3	$148
Lenoss Medical Inc	1	$147
Nalu Medical, Inc.	2	$146
Captiva Spine Inc	2	$127
Precision Spine, Inc.	2	$126
C2dx, Inc	1	$125
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$120
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	1	$112
AbbVie	1	$110
Smith+Nephew	3	$94
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$58
Life Spine, Inc.	1	$53
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	1	$43
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	2	$29
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$27
Boston Scientific	1	$25
Radius Health, Inc.	1	$20
CSL Behring	1	$20
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$18
Omniscient Neurotechnology America Ltd	1	$18

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.

Ti-Diagon$106,533
Orthros$103,623
Spira$82,387
Coveris$70,730
SPINEJACK$40,733
LineSider$30,337
AVAFLEX$28,975
AUTOPLEX$27,075
FlareHawk$21,736
ACTIFUSE$19,725
VERTAPLEX$16,625
FLOSEAL$15,802
Diagon$15,018
No Related Product$10,757
T2 STRATOSPHERE$10,511
Hydroputty$10,000
KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$6,730
IVAS$6,650
MYSPINE$6,475
XLIF$6,362

How this compares

$561,041 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 556 neurological surgery providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$582,257

Medicare patients

447

Services billed

1,672

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	215	$6,071
Tizanidine Hcl	163	$1,891
Gabapentin	163	$1,552
Methylprednisolone	77	$509
Pregabalin	33	$476
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	27	$379
Methocarbamol	27	$330
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	57	$279
Diclofenac Sodium	13	$134
Cephalexin	11	$82
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	13	$73
Meloxicam	12	$8

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Wellington

Stephen ParkerJacksonville$18.7M
Ira GoodmanOrlando$10.4M
Eric PetersonMiami$10.1M
Brian SnellingBoca Raton$10M
Kim ManwaringOrlando$5M
Ricardo HanelJacksonville$3.8M
Brian HohGainesville$3.7M
Paul SawinWinter Park$3M
John MainOcala$2.8M
Michael WangMiami$2.5M

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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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