John Herzenberg
Orthopaedic Surgery · Baltimore, MDNPI 1922041557
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $588,753 of the $745,877 with a category attached, or 78.9%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 83.5% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $301,246, more than ten times the $2,265 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery 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 95 payments — averaging $7851.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$623K
- Synthes GmbH$109K
- Orthopediatrics Canada ULC$8K
- Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc.$2K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Wishbone Medical Inc.$1K
- plus $469 from 8 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $71,850 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Globus Medical$72K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$588,75379%
- Consulting fees$11,6602%
- Speaking & faculty fees$19,5003%
- Travel & lodging$14,1762%
- Food & beverage$2,3580%
- Other$109,43015%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 63 | $623,139 |
| Synthes GmbH | 3 | $109,430 |
| Orthopediatrics Canada ULC | 2 | $7,950 |
| Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. | 4 | $1,947 |
| Globus Medical | 8 | $1,531 |
| Wishbone Medical Inc. | 3 | $1,410 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $131 |
| Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Orthopediatrics Corp. | 3 | $99 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $55 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $14 |
| Biomarin Pharmaceutical 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.
- Taylor Spatial Frame$388,179
- SMART TSF$202,843
- SPATIAL FRAME$33,733
- PRECICE Intramedullary Limb Lengthening System$1,893
- COMPASS HINGE$1,000
- ILIZAROV$1,000
- Jet-X$1,000
- Prox Hum$832
- CAT Kit$750
- Journey II XR$374
- Autobahn$347
- Clubfoot Achilles Tenotomy Kit$300
- PRECICE$162
- Anthem$138
- TOMOFIX$106
How this compares
$745,877 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 378 orthopaedic surgery providers in Maryland.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Baltimore
- Mark MyersonBaltimore$10.5M
- Anand MurthiBaltimore$3.7M
- Khaled KebaishBaltimore$3M
- Shawn StandardBaltimore$1.4M
- Paul SponsellerBaltimore$958K
- Leslie MatthewsBaltimore$710K
- Rebecca CerratoBaltimore$575K
- Henry BoucherBaltimore$315K
- James WoodBaltimore$266K
- Michael JacobsBaltimore$249K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.