RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Goldsmith, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Chevy Chase, MDNPI 1588755854

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $63,353 of the $70,157 with a category attached, or 90.3%. Globus Medical accounts for 96.4% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MD with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$70,157in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 134 payments — averaging $523.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Globus Medical$68K
  • Locate Bio Inc$1K
  • Medtronic$1K
  • Zimmer Biomet$84
  • Cerapedics Inc.$73
  • Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$57
  • plus $117 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Royalty or licence$63,35390%
  • Consulting fees$3,9756%
  • Food & beverage$2,8294%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Globus Medical(2 entities)77$67,625
Locate Bio Inc1$1,125
Medtronic(3 entities)45$1,076
Zimmer Biomet2$84
Cerapedics Inc.2$73
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation1$57
Woven Orthopedic Technologies, LLC1$34
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.2$27
DJO, LLC1$23
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.1$18
Misonix Inc1$15

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

$70,157 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 378 orthopaedic surgery providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$317,601
Medicare patients
441
Services billed
1,702

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Methylprednisolone50$370
Meloxicam97$273

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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