Chad Patton, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Annapolis, MDNPI 1417081837
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $22,896 of the $28,878 with a category attached, or 79.3%. Medtronic accounts for 88.5% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $23,361, more than ten times the $136 reported in 2019.
Across 58 payments — averaging $497.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$26K
- Synthes GmbH$3K
- Stryker$286
- Johnson & Johnson$122
- Native Surgical, LLC$109
- Baxter Healthcare$81
- plus $151 from 5 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $1099.75 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Elutia, Inc.$5K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$22,89679%
- Travel & lodging$3,60012%
- Food & beverage$2,3838%
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) | 41 | $25,560 |
| Synthes GmbH | 3 | $2,569 |
| Stryker | 4 | $286 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $122 |
| Native Surgical, LLC | 1 | $109 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $81 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $65 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $34 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $19 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$1,524
How this compares
$28,878 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 49 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Maryland.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 76 | $478 |
| Gabapentin | 23 | $65 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 13 | $58 |
| Meloxicam | 13 | $47 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Annapolis
- Alessandro SpecialeAnnapolis$39K
- Stephen FaustAnnapolis$19
- John CarboneBaltimore$25M
- Steven LudwigBaltimore$2.7M
- Joseph ObrienBethesda$2.4M
- Paul McAfeeBaltimore$2.2M
- Ira FedderTowson$1.1M
- Scott McGovernSalisbury$431K
- Amit JainBaltimore$250K
- Andrew MoOlney$166K
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.