Has Daniel Husted, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $878,039 in general payments to Daniel Husted, MD across 125 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 Daniel Husted, 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 Daniel Husted, 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.

Daniel Husted, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Stuart, FLNPI 1174543573

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $616,886 of the $878,039 with a category attached, or 70.3%. Republic Spine accounts for 94.4% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $302,016 and has fallen 98.2% since, to $5,454 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$878,039in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 125 payments — averaging $7024.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Republic Spine$829K
Precision Spine, Inc.$48K
Si-bone, Inc.$578
Atlas Spine, Inc.$323
Abbott$162
Pfizer$78
plus $287 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$616,88670%
Consulting fees$258,91729%
Food & beverage$1,9340%
Entertainment$3020%

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
Republic Spine	52	$828,998
Precision Spine, Inc.	21	$47,612
Si-bone, Inc.	26	$578
Atlas Spine, Inc.	1	$323
Abbott	9	$162
Pfizer	4	$78
Smith+Nephew	2	$58
Davol Inc.	1	$44
Southern Edge Orthopaedics, Inc.	1	$37
Stryker	1	$33
Baxter Healthcare	2	$32
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$31
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$24
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$17
Nevro Corp.	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.

Dark Star Pedicle Screw System$135,168
Dark Star$89,129
Restore Interbody Fusion System$60,417
INTERVERTEBRAL BODY FUSION DEVICE$17,112
Reform Ti Ped System$10,500
ShurFit ACIF 2C Interbody$9,000
Slimplicity HP ACDF$9,000
SLIMPLICITY PLUS ACDF SYSTEM$9,000
Reform MD Vue Lateral System$8,000
ShurFit 2C Curved Interbody System$8,000
Slimplicity HP System$8,000
MD Vue Lateral Access System$4,500
SHURFIT LUMBAR INTERBODY$4,000
MD Vue Lateral System$2,500
Next Gen Posterior Interbody & Instrumentation$2,500
Slimplicity Plus System$2,500
TLIF Curved Interbody Cage$1,000
Dakota Cervical Standalone System$1,000
TPLIF$1,000
Curved Interbody Implant$500

How this compares

$878,039 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 159 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$813,351

Medicare patients

812

Services billed

25,961

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
Gabapentin	601	$5,257
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	139	$2,388
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	218	$1,753
Lidocaine	12	$923
Pregabalin	48	$585
Cephalexin	180	$496
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	147	$341
Tramadol Hcl	78	$341
Celecoxib	15	$329
Diclofenac Sodium	34	$284
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	23	$276
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	27	$194
Methylprednisolone	32	$164
Clindamycin Hcl	35	$148
Diazepam	47	$84

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Stuart

Anuj PrasherStuart$81K
Harry ShufflebargerMiami$3.5M
Paul KellerMelbourne$3.4M
Thomas SweeneySarasota$2.3M
Geoffrey CronenTampa$2.2M
James BillysOdessa$1.9M
Mark DekutoskiDestin$1.8M
Farhan SiddiqiOdessa$1.7M
Samuel JosephSafety Harbor$1.7M
Thomas ErricoMiami$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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