Paul Canale
Orthopaedic Surgery · Daphne, ALNPI 1710973490
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (55.0%), other and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 99.9% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $335,615 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $172 in 2022. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in AL 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 32 payments — averaging $19,041 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$609K
- DJO, LLC$184
- Precision Spine, Inc.$126
- Abbott$115
- Titan Spine, LLC$107
- Si-bone, Inc.$65
- plus $181 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$334,93355%
- Food & beverage$1,0650%
- Other$273,31045%
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) | 10 | $608,530 |
| DJO, LLC | 11 | $184 |
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 1 | $126 |
| Abbott | 1 | $115 |
| Titan Spine, LLC | 1 | $107 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $65 |
| Corelink, LLC | 1 | $45 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $31 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Amgen | 1 | $16 |
| Stryker | 1 | $14 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- nanoLOCK-C$149,613
- nanoLOCK-L$123,696
- Vault C$126
- PROCLAIM$115
- nanoLOCK$107
How this compares
$609,308 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 319 orthopaedic surgery providers in Alabama.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Daphne
- Jeffrey DugasBirmingham$11.5M
- Benton EmblomBirmingham$3M
- Herrick SiegelBirmingham$1.2M
- Kenneth MooreBirmingham$342K
- Joseph SherrillBirmingham$221K
- Jonathan QuadeBirmingham$217K
- Lawrence LemakVestavia$216K
- Ginger BryantBirmingham$209K
- Marcus RothermichBirmingham$207K
- Christopher HeckHoover$166K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.