Ira Fedder
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Towson, MDNPI 1962425223
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (48.2%), ownership interests and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 38.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $279,675 and has fallen 76.9% since, to $64,471 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine 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.
Across 120 payments — averaging $8786.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$401K
- Tyber Medical, LLC$388K
- Medtronic$260K
- Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$4K
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$490
- Abbott$388
- plus $705 from 8 others
Across 8 payments — averaging $737,481 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Tyber Medical, LLC$5.9M
- Titan Spine, LLC$0
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$508,39148%
- Consulting fees$126,74812%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,5940%
- Travel & lodging$5,9511%
- Food & beverage$2,6120%
- Gifts$350%
- Ownership interest$289,43827%
- Other$116,61211%
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 | 83 | $400,592 |
| Tyber Medical, LLC | 4 | $388,230 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $259,675 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 6 | $4,302 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 5 | $490 |
| Abbott | 3 | $388 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $163 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 1 | $155 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $136 |
| Amgen | 4 | $103 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $73 |
| Theradaptive, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Stryker | 1 | $26 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $14 |
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.
- INDEPENDENCE MIS$122,279
- INDEPENDENCE$101,995
- ZYFLEX$75,423
- nanoLOCK-C$63,835
- nanoLOCK-L$52,777
- ViaCell / Trifecta$27,258
- Viacell$26,206
- VersaTie$18,571
- PluriCell$14,594
- Periprosthetic Fracture$5,219
- Bioactive DBM$2,625
- Excelsius Robotics System$1,841
- CALIBER$1,500
- Regenerative Technologies$844
- Excelsius - GPS$843
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$300
- LATIS Lateral$154
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$136
- FLOSEAL$121
How this compares
$1,054,383 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 49 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Maryland.
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Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Towson
- Michael DabbahTowson$13K
- John CarboneBaltimore$25M
- Steven LudwigBaltimore$2.7M
- Joseph ObrienBethesda$2.4M
- Paul McAfeeBaltimore$2.2M
- Scott McGovernSalisbury$431K
- Amit JainBaltimore$250K
- Andrew MoOlney$166K
- Navinder SethiBethesda$114K
- Mesfin LemmaBaltimore$47K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.