Gary Harter, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Vero Beach, FLNPI 1609845312
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $2,841,731 of the $3,616,188 with a category attached, or 78.6%. Encore Medical, LP accounts for 96.6% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in FL 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 586 payments — averaging $6170.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Encore Medical, LP$3.5M
- Zimmer Biomet$100K
- Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC$13K
- Trice Medical, Inc.$10K
- Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC$617
- Johnson & Johnson$212
- plus $392 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,841,73179%
- Consulting fees$704,77519%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,4000%
- Travel & lodging$52,9211%
- Food & beverage$12,7020%
- Education$6600%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Encore Medical, LP | 429 | $3,492,605 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 128 | $99,643 |
| Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC | 5 | $12,728 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 9 | $9,991 |
| Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC | 6 | $617 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $212 |
| Stryker | 5 | $185 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $148 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $59 |
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.
- DJO SURGICAL$2,051,108
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$1,480,420
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$342,929
- Oxford$71,902
- DJO Surgical TaperFill Hip System$68,720
- DJO Surgical Turon Modular Shoulder System$30,257
- Oxford-Knees$24,017
- DJO Surgical Discovery Elbow System$19,499
- iNSitu Hip System$12,728
- Segway blade or mieye camera$9,788
- DJO Surgical 3DKnee System$1,928
- Persona$716
- DJO Surgical Exprt Revision Hip$667
- OXFORD PARTIAL KNEE$482
- DJO Surgical Match Point System$422
- Persona Revision$361
- DJO Surgical Alians Proximal Humerus Fracture Plate$245
- DJO Surgical Cobalt HV Bone Cement$141
- TFN ADVANCED$125
- VA-LCP PLATES & SCREWS$125
How this compares
$3,616,188 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,263 orthopaedic surgery providers in Florida.
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 in Vero Beach
- Richard SteinfeldVero Beach$409K
- Andrew CooperClearwater$102M
- Richard HynesMelbourne$34.8M
- Mark FrankleTemple Terrace$31M
- Roy SandersTemple Terrace$19.6M
- George HaidukewychOrlando$10M
- Robert SantrockFernandina Beach$7.3M
- Martin RocheFt. Lauderdale$7.1M
- Steven LyonsTampa$6.7M
- Thomas BernasekTemple Terrace$6.4M
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.