Carlo Bellabarba, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Seattle, WANPI 1174662431
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $9,000 of the $12,888 with a category attached, or 69.8%. Synthes GmbH accounts for 83.9% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $6,239 and has fallen 94.6% since, to $336 in 2025.
Across 33 payments — averaging $390.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Synthes GmbH$11K
- Globus Medical$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$720
- Ricoh USA, Inc$25
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$9,00070%
- Travel & lodging$2,65621%
- Food & beverage$1,23210%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Synthes GmbH | 13 | $10,814 |
| Globus Medical | 5 | $1,329 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 14 | $720 |
| Ricoh USA, Inc | 1 | $25 |
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
$12,888 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 61 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Washington.
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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 of the spine in Seattle
- Rajiv SethiSeattle$2.9M
- Richard BransfordSeattle$413K
- Jens ChapmanSeattle$394K
- Venu NemaniSeattle$199K
- Philip LouieSeattle$132K
- Nicholas SpinaSeattle$98K
- Farhan KarimSeattle$59K
- Haitao ZhouSeattle$48K
- Edward JungSeattle$35K
- Karina KatchkoSeattle$13K
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.