Has Paul Alvarez, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,147 in general payments to Paul Alvarez, MD across 32 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 Paul Alvarez, 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 Paul Alvarez, 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.

Paul Alvarez, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Columbus, OHNPI 1295296085

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,147in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $129.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$1K
CDC Medical LLC$1K
Globus Medical$524
Medtronic$374
Alphatec Spine, Inc$179
Boston Scientific$144
plus $242 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$68116%
Food & beverage$2,01949%
Education$1,44735%

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
Stryker	12	$1,467
CDC Medical LLC	2	$1,216
Globus Medical(2 entities)	7	$524
Medtronic	5	$374
Alphatec Spine, Inc	2	$179
Boston Scientific	2	$144
Linvatec Corporation	1	$129
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc	1	$113

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.

AERO-LL$834
XLIF$256
AEQUALIS PERFORM$249
LIF$164
TRITANIUM$163
RELINE$141
CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$138
BioBrace 23mm$129
TLIF$128
BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$124
AEQUALIS FLEX REVIVE$124
MagnetOs$113

How this compares

$4,147 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 794 orthopaedic surgery providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$10,865

Medicare patients

Services billed

111

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 Hcl	39	$259
Tizanidine Hcl	28	$184
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	15	$53

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Columbus

Safdar KhanColumbus$825K
Thomas ScharschmidtColumbus$403K
Benjamin TaylorColumbus$388K
Gregory CvetanovichColumbus$255K
Nathaniel LongColumbus$178K
William VasileffColumbus$158K
Sharat KusumaColumbus$137K
Reuben GobezieCleveland$12.6M
Brad PichaIndependence$12.3M
Gregory BerletWorthington$9.9M

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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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