John Blair, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Tacoma, WANPI 1700985611
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $6,765 of the $8,367 with a category attached, or 80.9%. Innovasis Inc accounts for 68.1% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,394 and has fallen 58.7% since, to $1,401 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in WA, where the typical reported total is $7,316.
Across 42 payments — averaging $199.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Innovasis Inc$6K
- Abbott$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$505
- Cerapedics Inc.$277
- Johnson & Johnson$148
- Medtronic$98
- plus $481 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,76581%
- Food & beverage$96512%
- Education$6388%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Innovasis Inc | 5 | $5,695 |
| Abbott | 2 | $1,163 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $505 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 6 | $277 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $148 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $98 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $81 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $60 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $44 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $37 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 2 | $33 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $26 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Amgen | 1 | $22 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $21 |
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
$8,367 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 61 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Washington.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium ErDiclofenac Sodium | 308 | $6,974 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 97 | $2,026 |
| Lidocaine | 19 | $1,237 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 72 | $1,011 |
| Gabapentin | 76 | $918 |
| Celecoxib | 14 | $471 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 28 | $245 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 20 | $196 |
| Methocarbamol | 28 | $170 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 27 | $137 |
| Pregabalin | 14 | $136 |
| Methylprednisolone | 15 | $88 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 14 | $74 |
| Meloxicam | 11 | $50 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Tacoma
- Ari HoltzmanTacoma$4K
- Daniel KangTacoma$3K
- Michael MartinTacoma$2K
- Jos CoveTacoma$872
- Antoine TohmehSpokane$4.3M
- Rajiv SethiSeattle$2.9M
- Mark FreebornKirkland$1.8M
- Alireza AnissipourEverett$598K
- Richard BransfordSeattle$413K
- Jens ChapmanSeattle$394K
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.