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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $37,404 in general payments to David Silber, MD across 87 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 Silber, 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 Silber, 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 Silber, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Westminster, MDNPI 1487690525

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $31,188 of the $37,404 with a category attached, or 83.4%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 99.6% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $18,176 and has fallen 93.5% since, to $1,182 in 2025.

$37,404in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 87 payments — averaging $429.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$37K
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$76
Bioventus LLC$45
Boston Scientific$22
Smith+Nephew$15

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$31,18883%
Travel & lodging$4,92213%
Food & beverage$1,2943%

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
Zimmer Biomet	81	$37,245
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$76
Bioventus LLC	1	$45
Boston Scientific	1	$22
Smith+Nephew	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.

How this compares

$37,404 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 33 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$247,529

Medicare patients

608

Services billed

3,251

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
Celecoxib	153	$2,931
Meloxicam	147	$763
Oxycodone Hcl	153	$743
Methylprednisolone	19	$295
Cefadroxil	42	$259
Cephalexin	49	$177
Tramadol Hcl	43	$172
Hydromorphone Hcl	14	$58

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Westminster

Michael MontBaltimore$10.9M
Randal LewisChevy Chase$2.6M
Sridhar DurbhakulaBethesda$766K
Pasquale PetreraSalisbury$137K
Pablo WagnerBaltimore$118K
James NaceBaltimore$102K
John SteeleTowson$52K
Ryan ScullyChevy Chase$43K
Mark HasenauerBaltimore$35K
James MacdonaldAnnapolis$25K

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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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