Salvador Forte
Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · West Palm Beach, FLNPI 1316487663
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $9,453 of the $14,334 with a category attached, or 65.9%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 52.3% of the total.
Across 189 payments — averaging $75.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$8K
- Smith+Nephew$4K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Globus Medical$871
- Zimmer Biomet$659
- Vericel Corporation$122
- plus $250 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,74333%
- Food & beverage$9,45366%
- Education$1381%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 141 | $7,500 |
| Smith+Nephew | 25 | $3,533 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $1,400 |
| Globus Medical | 6 | $871 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 8 | $659 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $122 |
| Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $37 |
| Amgen | 2 | $36 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $20 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $19 |
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.
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$2,676
- Tandem$1,589
- Journey II$1,454
- T2 ALPHA$1,186
- PANGEA$1,053
- MAKO$861
- GAMMA$775
- REDAPT$758
- VISIONAIRE$570
- K-15 PORK$570
- VARIAX$428
- INSIGNIA$415
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$415
- Legion Revision$396
- Persona$341
- Actify$292
- BIOLOX$279
- EVOS$154
- SPATIAL FRAME$154
- SMART TSF$154
How this compares
$14,334 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 96 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 109 | $1,111 |
| Naproxen | 55 | $1,037 |
| Meloxicam | 371 | $779 |
| Celecoxib | 25 | $735 |
| Methylprednisolone | 80 | $533 |
| Lidocaine | 12 | $516 |
| Cefadroxil | 35 | $298 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 72 | $248 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 62 | $228 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 53 | $225 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in West Palm Beach
- Spencer SummersWest Palm Beach$75K
- John WangWest Palm Beach$38K
- Carlos LaverniaMiami$5.4M
- Juan SuarezMiami$3.9M
- John RedmondJacksonville$987K
- Gavan DuffyJacksonville$543K
- Timothy van de LeurSummerfield$511K
- Edward StolarskiSarasota$445K
- Andrew NoblePalm Beach Gardens$308K
- Raul GostheMiami$252K
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.