Geoffrey Cronen, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Tampa, FLNPI 1124059332
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $2,039,849 of the $2,159,685 with a category attached, or 94.5%. Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 100.0% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $549,545, more than ten times the $48,760 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine 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 130 payments — averaging $16,613 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2.2M
- Stryker$111
- Globus Medical$101
- Smith+Nephew$85
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$81
- Polynovo North America LLC$42
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,039,84994%
- Consulting fees$97,8245%
- Travel & lodging$19,5711%
- Food & beverage$2,4410%
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 | 117 | $2,159,265 |
| Stryker | 2 | $111 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $101 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $85 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $81 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $42 |
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.
- INVICTUS OPEN$1,893,525
- Other - Miscellaneous$223,638
- INVICTUS VISE$136,815
- KODIAK$25,250
- Invictus MIS$24,401
- OsseoScrew$24,166
- IdentiTi$13,500
- ALIF$10,125
- DO NOT USE - Posterior Cervical$10,000
- MULTIPLE$865
- Solus ALIF$109
- CREO$101
How this compares
$2,159,685 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 55 | $349 |
| Methylprednisolone | 26 | $160 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Tampa
- Mark PerenichTampa$133K
- Harry ShufflebargerMiami$3.5M
- Paul KellerMelbourne$3.4M
- Thomas SweeneySarasota$2.3M
- James BillysOdessa$1.9M
- Mark DekutoskiDestin$1.8M
- Farhan SiddiqiOdessa$1.7M
- Samuel JosephSafety Harbor$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.