Has David Falk, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $9,922 in general payments to David Falk, MD across 74 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 David Falk, 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 David Falk, 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.

David Falk, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Baltimore, MDNPI 1144710500

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (52.8%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 18 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.3%. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,878, more than ten times the $58 reported in 2021. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in MD, where the typical reported total is $9,922.

$9,922in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 74 payments — averaging $134.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$1K
Highridge Medical LLC$1K
Paladin Technology Solutions$1K
Medtronic$1K
VB Spine LLC$1K
Globus Medical$751
plus $3K from 12 others

What the payments were for

Grants$5005%
Travel & lodging$2,98130%
Food & beverage$5,24153%
Education$1,20012%

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	9	$1,423
Highridge Medical LLC	8	$1,403
Paladin Technology Solutions	3	$1,385
Medtronic	24	$1,230
VB Spine LLC	2	$1,151
Globus Medical	7	$751
Baxter Healthcare	5	$517
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$500
Cerapedics Inc.	2	$276
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	2	$260
Boston Scientific	2	$206
Zimmer Biomet	1	$178
Davol Inc.	1	$164
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$161
Johnson & Johnson	2	$151
Bioventus LLC	2	$108
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$46
KCI USA, 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.

CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$1,151
EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$810
MOBI-C PLUG & FIT US$671
Senza$596
Virage$408
I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$276
MAZOR X SYSTEM$271
Prospera$260
TIMBERLINE MPF LATERAL MODULAR PLATE FIXATION SYSTEM$197
ROSA$178
WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$169
ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$164
STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$164
T2$155
CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$154
GAMMA$148
ACCOLADE$148
PerClot$142
ALTERA$141
FLOSEAL$141

How this compares

$9,922 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 49 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$71,176

Medicare patients

147

Services billed

410

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
Oxycodone Hcl	35	$227
Gabapentin	17	$115
Methylprednisolone	19	$114

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Baltimore

John CarboneBaltimore$25M
Steven LudwigBaltimore$2.7M
Paul McAfeeBaltimore$2.2M
Amit JainBaltimore$250K
Mesfin LemmaBaltimore$47K
Daniel GelbBaltimore$40K
Charles EdwardsBaltimore$17K
Zan NaseerBaltimore$16K
Maksim ShlykovBaltimore$14K
Syed KarimBaltimore$12K

See the full list for Maryland →

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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