Has Paul Fuchs, DO received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,870 in general payments to Paul Fuchs, DO across 28 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 Fuchs, DO 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 Fuchs, DO 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 Fuchs, DO

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Fort Myers, FLNPI 1992708127

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (51.3%), royalties or licence payments and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Precision Spine, Inc. accounts for 79.9% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,790 and has fallen 82.6% since, to $659 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $16,334.

$6,870in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $245.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Precision Spine, Inc.$5K
Si-bone, Inc.$363
Medtronic$277
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$231
Stryker$187
Boston Scientific$109
plus $213 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$1,96529%
Consulting fees$3,52451%
Travel & lodging$4917%
Food & beverage$80512%
Other$851%

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
Precision Spine, Inc.	8	$5,489
Si-bone, Inc.	3	$363
Medtronic	5	$277
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	4	$231
Stryker	1	$187
Boston Scientific	2	$109
Next Science LLC	2	$96
Baxter Healthcare	1	$85
Radius Health, Inc.	2	$32

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.

How this compares

$6,870 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 159 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$171,220

Medicare patients

251

Services billed

11,012

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-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	29	$529
Methylprednisolone	60	$377
Meloxicam	105	$285
Diclofenac Sodium	32	$254
Celecoxib	22	$196
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	38	$184
Naproxen	16	$168
Ibuprofen	16	$134
Tramadol Hcl	23	$91
Pregabalin	16	$80
Methocarbamol	13	$38

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Fort Myers

Dale SegalFort Myers$51K
Harry ShufflebargerMiami$3.5M
Paul KellerMelbourne$3.4M
Thomas SweeneySarasota$2.3M
Geoffrey CronenTampa$2.2M
James BillysOdessa$1.9M
Mark DekutoskiDestin$1.8M
Farhan SiddiqiOdessa$1.7M
Samuel JosephSafety Harbor$1.7M
Thomas ErricoMiami$1.6M

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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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