Daniel Blizzard, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Post Falls, IDNPI 1871850727
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $207,403 of the $269,454 with a category attached, or 77.0%. Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 92.0% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 334 payments — averaging $806.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$248K
- Globus Medical$14K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$3K
- Bioventus LLC$2K
- Si-bone, Inc.$536
- Johnson & Johnson$315
- plus $845 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$207,40377%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,0311%
- Travel & lodging$43,79516%
- Food & beverage$15,3356%
- Entertainment$8900%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 245 | $248,007 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 40 | $14,444 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 6 | $3,198 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $2,110 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 6 | $536 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $315 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $169 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 3 | $167 |
| Stryker | 4 | $120 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $107 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Amgen | 2 | $37 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $23 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Other - Miscellaneous$214,863
- LTP$78,602
- Solus ALIF$20,303
- LIF$16,206
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$8,000
- DO NOT USE - ALIF$6,000
- DO NOT USE - Cervical$6,000
- OsteoAMP$2,031
- Excelsius - GPS$1,652
- Pulse$1,138
- Solanas$682
- Invictus MIS$635
- IdentiTi$574
- ALIF$524
- SafeOp$460
- Image Guided Surgical Device$142
- Senza$129
- SURGIFLO Hemostatic Matrix Family of Products$118
- iFuse Implant$102
How this compares
Too few orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Idahoto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 Post Falls
- Roland KentPost Falls$1.1M
- David GlassmanPost Falls$77K
- Samuel JorgensonMeridian$381K
- William BradleyMeridian$70K
- Gregory DietrichLewiston$42K
- Stephen HansenPocatello$15K
- David VerstHailey$10K
- Mark WeightIdaho Falls$8K
- Benjamin BlairPocatello$1K
- Lynn StrombergIdaho Falls$1K
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.