Martin Herman
Orthopaedic Surgery · Philadelphia, PANPI 1710924030
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 202 payments — averaging $70.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$9K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$4K
- Medtronic$640
- Globus Medical$314
- Cerapedics Inc.$254
- Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc.$97
- plus $180 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,07121%
- Travel & lodging$2,26216%
- Food & beverage$8,99863%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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(2 entities) | 164 | $9,182 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 9 | $3,665 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 13 | $640 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $314 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 4 | $254 |
| Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc. | 4 | $97 |
| Orthopediatrics Corp. | 2 | $88 |
| VB Spine LLC | 2 | $78 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 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.
- NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$1,063
- SPINEMAP$969
- TRITANIUM$909
- MESA$456
- ES2 SPINAL SYSTEM$455
- STRYKER NAV3I$455
- TFN ADVANCED$415
- NAV -3INAVIGATION PLATFORM$319
- BIO4$319
- XIA$306
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$206
- Excelsius - GPS$186
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$186
- ARIA$163
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$156
- SERRATO$152
- ES2$148
- CD HORIZON$145
- NILE$143
- MESA SMALL STATURE SPINAL SYSTEM$141
How this compares
$14,331 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,048 orthopaedic surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Philadelphia
- John FenlinPhiladelphia$5.9M
- Alexander VaccaroPhiladelphia$4.5M
- Joseph AbboudPhiladelphia$4.1M
- Samir MehtaPhiladelphia$3.7M
- Surena NamdariPhiladelphia$1.8M
- Craig IsraelitePhiladelphia$938K
- Andrew KuntzPhiladelphia$732K
- Neil ShethPhiladelphia$633K
- Vahid EntezariPhiladelphia$487K
- Amrit KhalsaPhiladelphia$475K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.