Kalman Blumberg, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Ft Lauderdale, FLNPI 1346234796
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $386,548 of the $397,010 with a category attached, or 97.4%. Integrity Implants Inc. accounts for 68.3% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 130 payments — averaging $3053.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Integrity Implants Inc.$271K
- Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus$116K
- Globus Medical$7K
- Stryker$2K
- Boston Scientific$184
- Medtronic$184
- plus $498 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$386,54897%
- Consulting fees$5,7501%
- Travel & lodging$1,7100%
- Food & beverage$2,9571%
- Gifts$440%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 39 | $271,073 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus | 16 | $116,434 |
| Globus Medical | 23 | $6,943 |
| Stryker | 24 | $1,694 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $184 |
| Medtronic | 12 | $184 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $162 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $77 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $52 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 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.
How this compares
$397,010 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 159 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Florida.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 39 | $629 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Ft Lauderdale
- Stuart HershmanFt Lauderdale$119K
- Harry ShufflebargerMiami$3.5M
- Paul KellerMelbourne$3.4M
- Thomas SweeneySarasota$2.3M
- Geoffrey CronenTampa$2.2M
- James BillysOdessa$1.9M
- Mark DekutoskiDestin$1.8M
- Farhan SiddiqiOdessa$1.7M
- Samuel JosephSafety Harbor$1.7M
- Thomas ErricoMiami$1.6M
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.