Joseph Smucker, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Carmel, INNPI 1225029655
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (57.3%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 84.5% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $27,425 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $51 in 2024.
Across 67 payments — averaging $575.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$33K
- Zimmer Biomet$6K
- Nevro Corp.$90
- Globus Medical$64
- Spineart USA Inc$26
- Carlsmed, Inc.$14
- plus $12 from 1 others
Across 199 payments — averaging $5203.81 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.
- Medtronic$1M
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,5009%
- Speaking & faculty fees$22,10057%
- Travel & lodging$5,10813%
- Food & beverage$2,0975%
- Education$5,77715%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 45 | $32,599 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 15 | $5,777 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $90 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $64 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Biocomposites 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.
- INFUSE$24,349
- INFUSE BONE GRAFT$2,513
- Persona$1,961
- Lapidus Plate$997
- ROSA$880
- CENTERPIECE PLATE FIXATION SYSTEM$500
- G7$479
- Comprehensive Anatomic$306
- Stratum Foot Plating System$303
- Alps Plates and Instruments$285
- Juggerknot$285
- Juggerknot-Foot & Ankle$281
- MazorX - Renaissance$163
- nanoLOCK-L$149
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$133
How this compares
$38,582 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 48 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Indiana.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 151 | $1,996 |
| Pregabalin | 25 | $361 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Carmel
- Rick SassoCarmel$1.6M
- Paul KraemerCarmel$276K
- Barrett BoodyCarmel$59K
- Michael McCarthyCarmel$50K
- Praveen PerniCarmel$16K
- Justin MillerCarmel$7K
- Stephen RitterCarmel$4K
- James HardackerCarmel$746
- David SchwartzIndianapolis$1.5M
- Zeshan HyderCrown Point$1.1M
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.