David Casper, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Philadelphia, PANPI 1477971422
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $160,300 of the $195,297 with a category attached, or 82.1%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Cerapedics Inc. at 45.1% of the total.
Across 273 payments — averaging $715.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cerapedics Inc.$88K
- Stryker$82K
- VB Spine LLC$23K
- Globus Medical$1K
- Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$295
- LEO Pharma Inc.$235
- plus $590 from 6 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $16,611 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.
- Carlsmed, Inc.$66K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$160,30082%
- Travel & lodging$21,45211%
- Food & beverage$11,5926%
- Education$1,8011%
- Entertainment$1520%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cerapedics Inc. | 84 | $88,080 |
| Stryker | 146 | $81,637 |
| VB Spine LLC | 20 | $23,446 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 10 | $1,014 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 2 | $295 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 2 | $235 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 2 | $133 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Almirall LLC | 1 | $118 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $82 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $68 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $65 |
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.
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$86,552
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$31,721
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$19,949
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$17,327
- MONTEREY AL$17,090
- OASYS$14,485
- CANYON RETRACTOR SYSTEMS$13,500
- XIA 3$13,404
- ESCALATE$3,985
- ES2 SPINAL SYSTEM$2,777
- SERRATO$2,554
- AERO-LL$2,450
- TRITANIUM$1,939
- N/A$1,743
- AVIATOR$1,506
- XIA$1,485
- ALEUTIAN TLIF MI$1,444
- ANCHOR C$957
- ES2$887
- BIO4$686
How this compares
$195,297 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 43 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Pennsylvania.
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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.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Philadelphia
- Joshua PahysPhiladelphia$213K
- John FisherPhiladelphia$43K
- Patrick CahillPhiladelphia$4K
- Sherif SherifPhiladelphia$3K
- Richard BalderstonPhiladelphia$0
- Alan HilibrandBensalem$1.4M
- Joel TorrettiState College$1.1M
- Gregory BaileyState College$1.1M
- David AndersonBensalem$786K
- Jeffrey McConnellAllentown$509K
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.