Chester Sutterlin
Orthopaedic Surgery · Gainesville, FLNPI 1831267061
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 105 payments — averaging $2308.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$121K
- Atlas Spine, Inc.$84K
- VB Spine LLC$20K
- Medtronic$9K
- Spineology Inc.$5K
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$2K
- plus $2K from 1 others
Across 9 payments — averaging $162.22 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.
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$1K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$156,78699%
- Travel & lodging$1,5221%
- Food & beverage$900%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 22 | $121,484 |
| Atlas Spine, Inc. | 2 | $84,000 |
| VB Spine LLC | 4 | $19,540 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 31 | $8,506 |
| Spineology Inc. | 30 | $5,413 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 7 | $1,842 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 9 | $1,612 |
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.
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$102,771
- CAPRI$38,254
- TSRH$5,648
- TSRH SPINAL SYSTEM$2,648
- Capture Facet Screw System$2,382
- spartan$1,782
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$1,631
- Capture$758
How this compares
$242,398 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,263 orthopaedic surgery providers in Florida.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Gainesville
- Rull James ToussaintGainesville$1.3M
- Kevin FarmerGainesville$927K
- Richard VlasakGainesville$773K
- Andrew CooperClearwater$102M
- Richard HynesMelbourne$35M
- Mark FrankleTemple Terrace$31.4M
- David WatsonTemple Terrace$21M
- Roy SandersTemple Terrace$19.6M
- George HaidukewychOrlando$10M
- Martin RocheFt. Lauderdale$7.3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.