Emily Putney, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Port St Lucie, FLNPI 1497986418
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 57 payments — averaging $151.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- 4web, Inc.$4K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- Globus Medical$903
- Arthrex$545
- Medtronic$315
- Boston Scientific$288
- plus $1K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,50041%
- Travel & lodging$1,35016%
- Food & beverage$3,78244%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 4web, Inc. | 3 | $3,500 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 9 | $1,964 |
| Globus Medical | 4 | $903 |
| Arthrex | 4 | $545 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 8 | $315 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $288 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $247 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $214 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 5 | $214 |
| DJO, LLC | 3 | $97 |
| Amgen | 4 | $68 |
| Stryker | 2 | $58 |
| Abbott | 3 | $57 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $50 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $18 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $18 |
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.
- SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$3,500
- Other - Miscellaneous$880
- XLIF$498
- Pulse$261
- X-CORE$260
- ReActiv8$214
- Intracept$145
- POWER$144
- Senza$139
- SUPERION$125
- Physio-Stim$114
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$108
How this compares
$8,632 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 159 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Florida.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 128 | $3,924 |
| Methylprednisolone | 155 | $1,161 |
| Gabapentin | 143 | $770 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 78 | $741 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 15 | $255 |
| Meloxicam | 56 | $238 |
| Cephalexin | 12 | $59 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Port St Lucie
- Harry ShufflebargerMiami$3.5M
- Paul KellerMelbourne$3.4M
- Thomas SweeneySarasota$2.3M
- Geoffrey CronenTampa$2.2M
- James BillysOdessa$1.9M
- Samuel JosephSafety Harbor$1.8M
- Mark DekutoskiDestin$1.8M
- Farhan SiddiqiOdessa$1.7M
- Thomas ErricoMiami$1.6M
- Constantine ToumbisCrystal River$1.6M
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.