Robert Hart
Orthopaedic Surgery · Seattle, WANPI 1831106756
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $682,454 of the $942,422 with a category attached, or 72.4%. Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. accounts for 71.1% of it on its own, with 23 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $368,166 and has fallen 99.3% since, to $2,611 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in WA 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 467 payments — averaging $2018.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$671K
- Medtronic$120K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$59K
- Globus Medical$53K
- Mirus, LLC$11K
- Spineart USA Inc$10K
- plus $20K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$682,45472%
- Consulting fees$145,77415%
- Speaking & faculty fees$53,2316%
- Travel & lodging$48,0955%
- Food & beverage$12,8301%
- Gifts$380%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 3 | $670,532 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 114 | $120,046 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 86 | $58,662 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 76 | $52,982 |
| Mirus, LLC | 29 | $10,776 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 13 | $9,768 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 49 | $9,765 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 64 | $2,568 |
| Amplify Surgical, Inc. | 6 | $2,224 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 5 | $1,823 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $1,250 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 5 | $467 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $360 |
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 2 | $245 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $167 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $136 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $132 |
| CTL Medical Corporation | 1 | $130 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $130 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Carbofix Spine Inc | 1 | $58 |
| Theradaptive, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 2 | $21 |
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.
- VIPER$670,532
- CD HORIZON$25,477
- Quartex Addition-C$13,783
- CORBEL$12,317
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$11,258
- EUROPA Pedicle Screw System$10,388
- CYGNUS Anterior Cervical Plate$10,388
- CREO$8,237
- New Addition C Connector$7,650
- Scarlet AL-T$6,318
- DIVERGENCE ANTERIOR CERVICAL FUSION SYSTEM$5,525
- Quartex$4,265
- Facet Fixation$4,000
- NorthStar$3,510
- MiRus 3DR Lumbar Interbody System$2,924
- IO Expandable Lumbar Interbody$2,924
- RIGEL 3DR Cervical Interbody$2,924
- Sierra$2,561
- dualX$2,147
- RISE$1,970
How this compares
$942,422 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 495 orthopaedic surgery providers in Washington.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Seattle
- James PritchettSeattle$6.4M
- James CrutcherSeattle$3.5M
- Keith MayoSeattle$3.1M
- Matthew SaltzmanSeattle$1.8M
- Burt YaszaySeattle$1.3M
- Sean ToomeySeattle$1.2M
- Jeffrey RohSeattle$604K
- Michael BrageSeattle$496K
- Daniel SchwartzSeattle$424K
- Grant GarciaSeattle$367K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.