Michael McCarthy, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Carmel, INNPI 1942628730
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (51.7%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 60.7% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 146 payments — averaging $339.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$30K
- Globus Medical$11K
- Stryker$3K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Synthes GmbH$821
- Xtant Medical Inc$750
- plus $2K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$25,62852%
- Speaking & faculty fees$10,01020%
- Travel & lodging$5,60211%
- Food & beverage$7,96316%
- Education$3301%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 70 | $30,048 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 13 | $11,317 |
| Stryker | 24 | $2,769 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $1,828 |
| Synthes GmbH | 1 | $821 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 1 | $750 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $458 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 3 | $358 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 5 | $290 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $191 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $148 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $70 |
| VB Spine LLC | 1 | $52 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $22 |
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.
- CREO$10,150
- UNID_PASS$8,633
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$4,498
- ENDOSKELETON TC NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$2,592
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$2,039
- GRAFTONAND GRAFTON PLUSDEMINERALIZED BONE MATRIX (DBM)$1,540
- Spine & Trauma 3D Navigation$1,350
- SYMPHONY$1,350
- DIVERGENCE-L ANTERIOR/OBLIQUE LUMBAR FUSION SYSTEM$850
- ES2 SPINAL SYSTEM$618
- TRITANIUM$412
- MagnetOs$308
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$308
- XLIF$300
- Excelsius Robotics System$296
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$295
- FIBERGRAFT BG Morsels$230
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$224
- NONE$183
- N/A$175
How this compares
$49,533 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 48 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Indiana.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 33 | $256 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Carmel
- Rick SassoCarmel$1.6M
- Paul KraemerCarmel$276K
- Barrett BoodyCarmel$59K
- Joseph SmuckerCarmel$39K
- Praveen PerniCarmel$16K
- Justin MillerCarmel$7K
- Stephen RitterCarmel$4K
- James HardackerCarmel$746
- David SchwartzIndianapolis$1.5M
- Zeshan HyderCrown Point$1.1M
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.