Has Craig Popp, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,630 in general payments to Craig Popp, MD across 155 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 Craig Popp, MD 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 Craig Popp, MD 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.

Craig Popp, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Vero Beach, FLNPI 1336110006

Payments from drug & device makers

$12,630in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 155 payments — averaging $81.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$4K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
Medtronic$2K
Johnson & Johnson$891
Globus Medical$718
Si-bone, Inc.$554
plus $2K from 21 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$9007%
Travel & lodging$5,34742%
Food & beverage$6,36250%
Education$210%

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
Stryker	32	$3,987
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	14	$2,599
Medtronic(2 entities)	23	$1,581
Johnson & Johnson	18	$891
Globus Medical(2 entities)	7	$718
Si-bone, Inc.	6	$554
Amgen	11	$492
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	6	$209
Arthrex	3	$205
Radius Health, Inc.	6	$204
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	2	$186
Bioventus LLC	2	$160
Spineart USA Inc	1	$118
Paradigm Spine, LLC	1	$98
Spineology Inc.	1	$91
Xtant Medical Inc	1	$86
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	4	$80
Reel Surgical, Inc.	2	$66
Smith+Nephew	3	$48
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$46
Cerapedics Inc.	1	$42
Boston Scientific	1	$42
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	2	$38
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$33
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$31
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	1	$14
Checkpoint Surgical, Inc	1	$12

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

$12,630 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 159 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$877,729

Medicare patients

896

Services billed

4,894

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	125	$1,044
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	63	$304
Tramadol Hcl	63	$203
Methylprednisolone	23	$159
Gabapentin	24	$136
Cephalexin	61	$121
Meloxicam	58	$109
Doxycycline Hyclate	19	$48
Diazepam	18	$11

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Vero Beach

Harry ShufflebargerMiami$3.5M
Paul KellerMelbourne$3.4M
Thomas SweeneySarasota$2.3M
Geoffrey CronenTampa$2.2M
James BillysOdessa$1.9M
Samuel JosephSafety Harbor$1.8M
Mark DekutoskiDestin$1.8M
Farhan SiddiqiOdessa$1.7M
Thomas ErricoMiami$1.6M
Constantine ToumbisCrystal River$1.6M

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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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