Robert Lins, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Royal Palm Beach, FLNPI 1801878327
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $890,201 of the $894,640 with a category attached, or 99.5%. Captiva Spine Inc accounts for 60.5% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in FL 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 81 payments — averaging $11,045 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Captiva Spine Inc$542K
- Zimvie Inc.$136K
- Zimmer Biomet$136K
- Highridge Medical LLC$79K
- Sonex Health, Inc.$2K
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$173
- plus $489 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$890,201100%
- Consulting fees$2,0000%
- Travel & lodging$1,1620%
- Food & beverage$1,2760%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Captiva Spine Inc | 30 | $541,544 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 8 | $136,046 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 9 | $135,864 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 6 | $78,810 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 8 | $1,715 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $173 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $153 |
| Abbott | 1 | $79 |
| Stryker | 1 | $65 |
| Carbofix Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $59 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Vertex | 1 | $31 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $17 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- CapLOX II$541,482
- ASPEN MIS FUSION SYSTEM$214,855
- Aspen$120,949
- Zyston Straight Interbody Fusion System$14,916
- Sx-One Microknife$1,689
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$131
How this compares
$894,640 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 159 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Florida.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 68 | $423 |
| Meloxicam | 47 | $145 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 35 | $78 |
| Amoxicillin | 73 | $50 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Royal Palm Beach
- Deeptee JainRoyal Palm Beach$247K
- 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
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.