Harry Shufflebarger
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Miami, FLNPI 1053369918
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $2,757,782 of the $3,488,056 with a category attached, or 79.1%. Stryker accounts for 74.1% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $965,336 and has fallen 51.6% since, to $467,662 in 2025. 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 189 payments — averaging $18,455 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$2.6M
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$549K
- VB Spine LLC$335K
- Integrity Implants Inc.$10K
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$5K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$4K
- plus $2K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,757,78279%
- Consulting fees$157,2865%
- Travel & lodging$19,4051%
- Food & beverage$4,4380%
- Gifts$440%
- Other$549,10016%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 132 | $2,583,510 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 3 | $549,100 |
| VB Spine LLC | 3 | $335,289 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 23 | $9,926 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $4,674 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 3 | $3,960 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $712 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 5 | $475 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $313 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $16 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,329,025
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$994,555
- YUKON$478,734
- Fibulink$39,162
- MESA$32,464
- GENERAL K2M PRODUCT DISCUSSION$23,144
- XIA$22,638
- TRITANIUM$22,638
- EVEREST$18,557
- SERRATO$11,777
- MESA RAIL$11,000
- NILE ALTERNATIVE FIXATION SYSTEM$10,677
- AVS NAVIGATOR$10,677
- MESA SPINAL SYSTEM$10,677
- SIghtLine$9,032
- ES2$7,557
- EXPAREL$4,620
- ATLAS$1,313
- NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$1,200
- 7D Surgical System$710
How this compares
$3,488,056 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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Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Miami
- Thomas ErricoMiami$1.6M
- Stephen GeorgeMiami$300K
- Emmanuel MengaMiami$215K
- Amar RajadhyakshaMiami$193K
- Frank EismontMiami$117K
- Jaime Gomez HernandezMiami$79K
- Nathan LebwohlMiami$48K
- Paul KellerMelbourne$3.4M
- Thomas SweeneySarasota$2.3M
- Geoffrey CronenTampa$2.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.