Michael Vitale
Orthopaedic Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1396775243
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $2,263,170 of the $2,689,391 with a category attached, or 84.2%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Highridge Medical LLC at 33.5% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $632,049, 2.0 times the $315,870 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 445 payments — averaging $6043.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Highridge Medical LLC$900K
- Zimvie Inc.$857K
- Zimmer Biomet$769K
- Stryker$132K
- Globus Medical$24K
- Medtronic$4K
- plus $3K from 8 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $26,175 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.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$52K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,263,17084%
- Consulting fees$377,19414%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,9000%
- Travel & lodging$28,1311%
- Food & beverage$16,9961%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Highridge Medical LLC | 78 | $900,430 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 85 | $856,953 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 92 | $768,662 |
| Stryker | 107 | $132,280 |
| Globus Medical | 21 | $24,110 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 40 | $4,420 |
| Bioventus LLC | 10 | $1,186 |
| Orthopediatrics Corp. | 2 | $367 |
| EBI, LLC | 3 | $252 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 2 | $223 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $205 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $138 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $44 |
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.
- Vital$937,366
- Vitality$812,965
- The Tether$810,082
- Vitality Power$96,402
- Vital Deformity$62,130
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$57,549
- Polaris Posterior Spinal System$57,378
- Vital Deformity, Degen, Hooks$53,937
- SERRATO$46,359
- Polaris 4.75 Spinal System$46,278
- Walter$36,300
- TRITANIUM$36,106
- XIA$34,686
- MESA SPINAL SYSTEM$33,699
- AIRO$25,801
- Spine-None$23,860
- C-TEK MAXAN$17,800
- Virage$17,347
- Mobi-C$17,218
- TrellOss-C SA$17,218
How this compares
$2,689,391 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,079 orthopaedic surgery providers in New York.
Other orthopaedic surgery in New York
- Anthony RomeoNew York$26.8M
- Lawrence LenkeNew York$26.8M
- Edwin SuNew York$13.2M
- William RicciNew York$11.6M
- Steven HaasNew York$11.3M
- Giles ScuderiNew York$10.7M
- Joseph ZuckermanNew York$9.9M
- Evan FlatowNew York$9.6M
- Bradford ParsonsNew York$9.4M
- Geoffrey WestrichNew York$7.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.