Has Robert Dolitsky, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,405 in general payments to Robert Dolitsky, MD across 23 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 Robert Dolitsky, 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 Robert Dolitsky, 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.

Robert Dolitsky, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Baltimore, MDNPI 1669822490

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,892 of the $3,405 with a category attached, or 84.9%. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 56.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $3,094 and has fallen 97.3% since, to $83 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in MD, where the typical reported total is $9,922.

$3,405in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 23 payments — averaging $148.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$2K
Stryker$1K
Native Surgical, LLC$83
Johnson & Johnson$43
Medtronic$33
Seapearl East, Inc$13

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,89285%
Food & beverage$51315%

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	4	$1,935
Stryker	13	$1,298
Native Surgical, LLC	1	$83
Johnson & Johnson	2	$43
Medtronic	2	$33
Seapearl East, 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.

How this compares

$3,405 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 49 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$137,859

Medicare patients

414

Services billed

1,173

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
Methylprednisolone	115	$712
Gabapentin	74	$592
Tramadol Hcl	67	$256
Prednisone	75	$134
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	14	$73
Meloxicam	34	$62

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Baltimore

John CarboneBaltimore$25M
Steven LudwigBaltimore$2.7M
Paul McAfeeBaltimore$2.2M
Amit JainBaltimore$250K
Mesfin LemmaBaltimore$47K
Daniel GelbBaltimore$40K
Charles EdwardsBaltimore$17K
Zan NaseerBaltimore$16K
Maksim ShlykovBaltimore$14K
Syed KarimBaltimore$12K

See the full list for Maryland →

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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