Kurt Spindler, MD
Sports Medicine · Garfiled Heights, OHNPI 1497855456
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (35.5%), consulting fees and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Novopedics, Inc. accounts for 76.4% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,920 and has fallen 98.9% since, to $43 in 2023.
Across 12 payments — averaging $564.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novopedics, Inc.$5K
- Summit Surgical Corp.$1K
- DJO, LLC$335
- Smith+Nephew$43
- Vericel Corporation$21
Across 7 payments — averaging $37,898 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.
- Smith+Nephew$183K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$83K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,50022%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,40035%
- Travel & lodging$93414%
- Food & beverage$73411%
- Education$1,20018%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novopedics, Inc. | 4 | $5,169 |
| Summit Surgical Corp. | 1 | $1,200 |
| DJO, LLC | 5 | $335 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $43 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $21 |
How this compares
$6,768 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 278 sports medicine providers in Ohio.
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.
Other sports medicine in Garfiled Heights
- David FlaniganColumbus$915K
- Thomas EllisDublin$427K
- Paul SaluanCleveland$367K
- Vincent SammarcoCincinnati$361K
- Jovan LaskovskiAkron$337K
- Julie BishopColumbus$322K
- Dominic KingCleveland$233K
- Michael SalataCleveland$212K
- Jason GeninLorain$115K
- Christopher KaedingColumbus$113K
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.