Robert Norton, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Boca Raton, FLNPI 1972798379
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (44.6%), royalties or licence payments and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 51 manufacturers reported payments, led by Baxter Healthcare at 24.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $174,692 and has fallen 80.4% since, to $34,202 in 2025.
Across 426 payments — averaging $1630.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Baxter Healthcare$170K
- Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus$137K
- Republic Spine$115K
- Integrity Implants Inc.$75K
- Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC$67K
- Globus Medical$65K
- plus $65K from 45 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $7142.86 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Philadelphia Medical Management Company LLC$50K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$289,39642%
- Consulting fees$309,70845%
- Speaking & faculty fees$53,7908%
- Travel & lodging$29,2124%
- Food & beverage$12,0122%
- Education$3240%
- Ownership interest$2330%
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.
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.
- FlareHawk$116,176
- Anterior Cervical Plate System$98,333
- FLOSEAL$73,977
- LineSider$65,691
- ACTIFUSE$62,896
- TISSEEL$53,192
- PASS-LP$25,532
- Toro$24,860
- UNiD$17,991
- No Related Product$16,858
- RECOTHROM$16,300
- PREVELEAK$16,300
- ALIF$15,835
- TLIF$15,426
- REFORM TI$15,081
- Modulus$12,333
- SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$4,136
- ReActiv8$3,545
- Other - Miscellaneous$3,338
- Simplify Cervical Artificial Disc$3,250
How this compares
$694,675 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 41 | $417 |
| Meloxicam | 126 | $376 |
| Celecoxib | 12 | $236 |
| Methylprednisolone | 32 | $225 |
| Cephalexin | 25 | $84 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Boca Raton
- Ashish SahaiBoca Raton$1M
- Nathaniel LowenBoca Raton$50K
- 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
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.