Michael Martin, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Tacoma, WANPI 1790726768
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,001 of the $1,526 with a category attached, or 65.6%. Globus Medical accounts for 65.6% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $410 and has fallen 83.0% since, to $69 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in WA, where the typical reported total is $7,316.
Across 28 payments — averaging $54.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$1K
- Polynovo North America LLC$91
- Stryker$86
- Zimvie Inc.$55
- Medtronic$53
- Avanos Medical$51
- plus $189 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,00166%
- Food & beverage$52434%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 12 | $1,001 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $91 |
| Stryker | 1 | $86 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 2 | $55 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $53 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $51 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $50 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $25 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Amgen | 1 | $20 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $5 |
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.
- RETAIN$430
How this compares
$1,526 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 61 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Washington.
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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 | 53 | $579 |
| Gabapentin | 26 | $288 |
| Meloxicam | 33 | $264 |
| Methylprednisolone | 32 | $214 |
| Hydroxyzine Pamoate | 32 | $199 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 13 | $140 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 23 | $81 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 14 | $73 |
| Diazepam | 13 | $13 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Tacoma
- John BlairTacoma$8K
- Ari HoltzmanTacoma$4K
- Daniel KangTacoma$3K
- Jos CoveTacoma$872
- Antoine TohmehSpokane$4.3M
- Rajiv SethiSeattle$2.9M
- Mark FreebornKirkland$1.8M
- Alireza AnissipourEverett$598K
- Richard BransfordSeattle$413K
- Jens ChapmanSeattle$394K
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.