Has Gary Dix received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $229,829 in general payments to Gary Dix across 148 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 Gary Dix 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 Gary Dix 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.

Gary Dix

Neurological Surgery · Annapolis, MDNPI 1326046327

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $181,157 of the $229,829 with a category attached, or 78.8%. Globus Medical accounts for 79.4% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $57,955 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $82 in 2024. Among neurological surgery clinicians in MD with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$229,829in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 148 payments — averaging $1552.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$182K
Si-bone, Inc.$26K
Stryker$20K
Boston Scientific$137
Abbott$114
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$86
plus $213 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$181,15779%
Consulting fees$39,40017%
Travel & lodging$2,8321%
Food & beverage$6,4403%

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
Globus Medical(2 entities)	28	$182,402
Si-bone, Inc.	71	$26,474
Stryker	22	$20,403
Boston Scientific	5	$137
Abbott	7	$114
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	4	$86
Nevro Corp.	4	$82
AbbVie	1	$28
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	2	$26
Biogen	1	$25
Centinel Spine, LLC	1	$20
Vertos Medical, Inc.	1	$16
Spineology Inc.	1	$16

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

$229,829 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 133 neurological surgery providers in Maryland.

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Other neurological surgery in Annapolis

Alexander CoonBaltimore$2.7M
Charles SansurBaltimore$1.8M
Faheem SandhuClinton$1.5M
Nicholas TheodoreBaltimore$833K
Daniel SciubbaBaltimore$789K
Hugo BenalcazarBel Air$380K
Henry BremBaltimore$353K
Ira GaronzikBaltimore$297K
James ConwayBaltimore$273K
Jean VoyadzisClinton$200K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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