David Schwartz, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Indianapolis, INNPI 1952355059
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (57.1%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 79.1% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $414,966, 3.0 times the $138,990 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in IN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 421 payments — averaging $3556.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$1.2M
- Globus Medical$306K
- Medtronic$4K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$3K
- Stryker$527
- Theradaptive, Inc.$274
- plus $610 from 8 others
Across 10 payments — averaging $8759.23 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.
- Cerapedics Inc.$66K
- Medtronic$19K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$2K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$855,38557%
- Consulting fees$503,78134%
- Travel & lodging$127,3739%
- Food & beverage$10,5011%
- Gifts$790%
- Entertainment$1330%
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 | 342 | $1,184,224 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 32 | $305,529 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 23 | $3,565 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 2 | $2,523 |
| Stryker | 7 | $527 |
| Theradaptive, Inc. | 3 | $274 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $191 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $126 |
| DJO, LLC | 4 | $111 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $63 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Vertex | 1 | $30 |
| BD | 1 | $24 |
| Crossroads Orthopedics, LLC | 1 | $20 |
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$690,301
- IdentiTi$334,911
- CoRoent$299,221
- Archon$290,964
- Leverage$187,690
- Invictus MIS$98,553
- LTP$75,000
- SafeOp$75,000
- TLIF$70,879
- ACP$16,963
- POROUS TITANIUM PLIF$12,639
- LIF$9,718
- PEEK Corpectomy$5,629
- Solus ALIF$5,000
- DO NOT USE - Cervical$3,000
- Battalion TLIF - PC$1,561
- DIVERGENCE-L$589
- INVICTUS OPEN$583
- ATLANTIS$512
- TRITANIUM$286
How this compares
$1,497,252 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 48 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Indiana.
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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 Indianapolis
- Gregory PoulterIndianapolis$995K
- Michael McMainsIndianapolis$686K
- Kevin O NeillIndianapolis$108K
- James ColeIndianapolis$64K
- Michael CosciaIndianapolis$885
- Philip SailerIndianapolis$294
- John PetersIndianapolis$16
- Robert HulerIndianapolis$14
- Rick SassoCarmel$1.6M
- Zeshan HyderCrown Point$1.1M
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.