Richard Bransford
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Seattle, WANPI 1457431421
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (45.5%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 56.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $108,019, 2.8 times the $38,314 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in WA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 354 payments — averaging $1166.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$232K
- Synthes GmbH$81K
- Icotec Medical Inc.$69K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$29K
- Johnson & Johnson$954
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$774
- plus $126 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$187,85646%
- Speaking & faculty fees$136,75733%
- Travel & lodging$80,95420%
- Food & beverage$7,2862%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 153 | $231,830 |
| Synthes GmbH | 97 | $80,860 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 60 | $69,381 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 27 | $28,927 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $954 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 3 | $774 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 2 | $126 |
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.
- VADER PEDICLE SYSTEM 6.0, SCREW, Carbon/PEEK, POLYAX., FEN., O 5.5 X 45 MM$41,904
- VADER PEDICLE SYSTEM, ROD, Carbon/PEEK, CURVED, 6.0 R450 X 200 MM$41,904
- KONG-TL VBR E, EXPANDABLE BODY, L, 19 MM X 27 - 37 MM$41,904
- KONG-TL VBR, END PLATE, ROUND, L AND SCREW, 12 X 43 MM$41,904
- KONG-TL VBR, END PLATE, RECTANGULAR, M AND SCREW, 12 X 33 MM$41,904
- Quartex$39,124
- CREO$33,063
- ALIF$28,344
- icotec BlackArmor Spine System$26,892
- EXPEDIUM$25,951
- Excelsius - GPS$24,549
- SYMPHONY$19,779
- XLIF$16,575
- RISE$14,940
- ELSA, ELSA AL/ATP$13,314
- CORBEL$13,200
- FORTIFY$12,139
- ELSA$11,475
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$11,035
- CREO MIS Stabilization System$10,219
How this compares
$412,852 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 61 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Washington.
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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.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Seattle
- Rajiv SethiSeattle$2.9M
- Jens ChapmanSeattle$394K
- Venu NemaniSeattle$199K
- Philip LouieSeattle$132K
- Nicholas SpinaSeattle$98K
- Farhan KarimSeattle$59K
- Haitao ZhouSeattle$48K
- Edward JungSeattle$35K
- Carlo BellabarbaSeattle$13K
- Karina KatchkoSeattle$13K
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.