Paul Asdourian, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Baltimore, MDNPI 1962446765
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $36,102 of the $44,966 with a category attached, or 80.3%. Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 69.2% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $15,772 and has fallen 93.7% since, to $987 in 2025.
Across 78 payments — averaging $576.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$31K
- Globus Medical$12K
- Stryker$277
- VB Spine LLC$276
- Arthrex$219
- Circinus Medical Technology LLC$200
- plus $415 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$36,10280%
- Travel & lodging$6,56615%
- Food & beverage$2,2975%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 23 | $31,123 |
| Globus Medical | 41 | $12,456 |
| Stryker | 2 | $277 |
| VB Spine LLC | 1 | $276 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $219 |
| Circinus Medical Technology LLC | 1 | $200 |
| Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC | 1 | $150 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $147 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $103 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Novel$19,375
- Novel SD$11,555
- Novel LLC$11,555
- INTERCONTINENTAL$4,979
- Joints$2,016
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$1,428
- Excelsius Robotics System$1,123
- ALTERA$779
- ELSA$769
- EXCELSIUS$724
- Q Guidance System$276
- Bolt Navigation$200
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$147
- SERRATO$142
- N/A$142
- TRITANIUM$135
How this compares
$44,966 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 378 orthopaedic surgery providers in Maryland.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 13 | $150 |
| Methylprednisolone | 17 | $85 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Baltimore
- Mark MyersonBaltimore$10.5M
- Anand MurthiBaltimore$3.7M
- Khaled KebaishBaltimore$3M
- Shawn StandardBaltimore$1.4M
- Paul SponsellerBaltimore$958K
- John HerzenbergBaltimore$746K
- Leslie MatthewsBaltimore$710K
- Rebecca CerratoBaltimore$575K
- Henry BoucherBaltimore$315K
- James WoodBaltimore$266K
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.