John Carbone
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Baltimore, MDNPI 1013984673
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $25,034,844 of the $25,035,635 with a category attached, or 100.0%. Stryker accounts for 88.8% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in MD 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 74 payments — averaging $338,319 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$22.2M
- VB Spine LLC$2.8M
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$25,034,844100%
- Food & beverage$7920%
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 | 65 | $22,238,827 |
| VB Spine LLC | 9 | $2,796,808 |
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.
- OASYS$18,367,218
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$4,251,699
- EVEREST$3,032,264
- MESA SPINAL SYSTEM$166,180
- NONE$150
- ACCULIF$103
How this compares
$25,035,635 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 49 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Maryland.
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Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Baltimore
- Steven LudwigBaltimore$2.7M
- Paul McAfeeBaltimore$2.2M
- Amit JainBaltimore$250K
- Mesfin LemmaBaltimore$47K
- Daniel GelbBaltimore$40K
- Charles EdwardsBaltimore$17K
- Zan NaseerBaltimore$16K
- Maksim ShlykovBaltimore$14K
- Syed KarimBaltimore$12K
- David FalkBaltimore$10K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.