Has Morris Seymour, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,599 in general payments to Morris Seymour, MD across 19 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Morris Seymour, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Morris Seymour, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Morris Seymour, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Huntsville, ALNPI 1366411027

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (40.7%), food and beverage and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Spineology Inc. accounts for 64.5% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $5,567 and has fallen 96.8% since, to $181 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in AL, where the typical reported total is $8,697.

$8,599in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 19 payments — averaging $452.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Spineology Inc.$6K
Spinesmith Holdings, LLC$1K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$989
Implanet America, Inc.$164
Merz North America, Inc.$130
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$123
plus $412 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$3,50041%
Speaking & faculty fees$2,00023%
Travel & lodging$98911%
Food & beverage$2,11125%

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
Spineology Inc.	3	$5,549
Spinesmith Holdings, LLC	1	$1,232
Alphatec Spine, Inc	4	$989
Implanet America, Inc.	2	$164
Merz North America, Inc.	1	$130
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$123
Precision Spine, Inc.	1	$117
Elevation Spine, Inc.	1	$106
4web, Inc.	1	$105
Trackx Technology, Inc.	2	$45
Johnson & Johnson	1	$22
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	1	$17

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.

OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$5,500
Vault C$117
SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$105

How this compares

$8,599 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 20 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$315,419

Medicare patients

403

Services billed

1,780

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
Celecoxib	335	$13,768
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	454	$2,836
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	204	$1,438
Tizanidine Hcl	209	$1,257
Gabapentin	125	$1,139
Methylprednisolone	113	$884
Methocarbamol	93	$839
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	95	$826
Tramadol Hcl	262	$541
Meloxicam	145	$450
Carisoprodol	27	$141
Mupirocin	21	$138
Diazepam	62	$116
Lactulose	11	$92
Ibuprofen	11	$74

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Huntsville

Javier RetoHuntsville$768K
Larry ParkerHuntsville$136K
Murray SpruiellHuntsville$6K
Franklin SammonsHuntsville$3K
John Rodriguez-FeoHuntsville$2K
Timothy HoltMontgomery$478K
Timothy BassettTuscaloosa$291K
Phillip KravetzCullman$224K
Charles GordonDaphne$208K
Todd VolkmanMobile$34K

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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.

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