Has Richard Hynes, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $34,832,967 in general payments to Richard Hynes, MD across 768 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 Richard Hynes, 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 Richard Hynes, 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.

Richard Hynes, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Melbourne, FLNPI 1184697450

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $34,060,430 of the $34,832,967 with a category attached, or 97.8%. Medtronic accounts for 99.3% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $22,273,027 and has fallen 92.5% since, to $1,660,905 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in FL 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.

$34,832,967in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 768 payments — averaging $45,355 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$34.6M
Globus Medical$157K
Si-bone, Inc.$47K
Medacta USA, Inc.$18K
Spineguard, Inc.$13K
Baxter Healthcare$10K
plus $2K from 6 others

$146,390in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 4 payments — averaging $36,598 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Medtronic$146K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$34,060,43098%
Consulting fees$428,8331%
Speaking & faculty fees$222,5251%
Travel & lodging$107,8630%
Food & beverage$13,2480%
Other$670%

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)	605	$34,584,928
Globus Medical	84	$157,251
Si-bone, Inc.	42	$47,358
Medacta USA, Inc.	2	$17,831
Spineguard, Inc.	8	$13,448
Baxter Healthcare	5	$9,870
Integrity Implants Inc.	11	$1,569
Cerapedics Inc.	5	$378
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	2	$189
Stryker	1	$58
Biocomposites Inc	1	$46
Zimmer Biomet	2	$41

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.

CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$3,191,478
CD HORIZON$1,682,208
ZEVO$1,661,215
DIVERGENCE$1,523,014
PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$1,495,279
ZEVO ANTERIOR CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$1,398,396
DIVERGENCE ANTERIOR CERVICAL FUSION SYSTEM$1,301,055
CLYDESDALE$60,086
ELSA$44,563
DIVERGENCE-L$36,360
Excelsius - GPS$27,729
ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$27,414
iFuse Implant$25,013
IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$20,933
O-ARM-ST$19,112
MYSPINE$17,831
CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$17,785
ELSA, ELSA AL/ATP$14,250
CLYDESDALE PTC SPINAL SYSTEM$11,512
RIALTO$10,494

How this compares

$34,832,967 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,263 orthopaedic surgery providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$571,655

Medicare patients

250

Services billed

2,262

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	33	$153
Methylprednisolone	13	$107

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Melbourne

Kenneth SandsMelbourne$407K
Andrew CooperClearwater$102M
Mark FrankleTemple Terrace$31M
Roy SandersTemple Terrace$19.6M
George HaidukewychOrlando$10M
Robert SantrockFernandina Beach$7.3M
Martin RocheFt. Lauderdale$7.1M
Steven LyonsTampa$6.7M
Thomas BernasekTemple Terrace$6.4M
Bryan SpringerJacksonville$6.3M

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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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