Samuel Goldsmit, MD
Neurological Surgery · Miami, FLNPI 1518221266
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 946 payments — averaging $549.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$460K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$27K
- Highridge Medical LLC$13K
- Globus Medical$6K
- Hyhte Holdings Inc.$3K
- Stryker$3K
- plus $7K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$3,0081%
- Consulting fees$53,63210%
- Speaking & faculty fees$353,48368%
- Travel & lodging$72,47414%
- Food & beverage$36,1367%
- Education$6640%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 721 | $459,722 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 25 | $27,251 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 16 | $13,076 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 69 | $6,345 |
| Hyhte Holdings Inc. | 1 | $3,008 |
| Stryker | 37 | $2,792 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 16 | $1,833 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 14 | $1,477 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 7 | $735 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $623 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 9 | $608 |
| Surgical Theater. Inc. | 2 | $585 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 1 | $352 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $329 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 5 | $142 |
| EBI, LLC | 1 | $94 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $89 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $77 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $60 |
| Neuropace, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $33 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $20 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Theragen, 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.
- CLYDESDALE PTC SPINAL SYSTEM$169,280
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$43,598
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$39,908
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$34,660
- O-ARM$34,274
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$24,515
- CLYDESDALE$19,028
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$18,518
- Other - Miscellaneous$13,641
- Vital$12,249
- ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$10,696
- Solus ALIF$7,405
- BIOLOGICS$5,024
- BATTALION LLIF$4,000
- IdentiTi$4,000
- CD HORIZON$3,205
- Masada MIS$3,008
- TLIF$1,450
- Trinity ELITE$1,301
- LIF$1,129
How this compares
$519,397 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 556 neurological surgery providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 42 | $766 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Miami
- Eric PetersonMiami$10.1M
- Michael WangMiami$2.5M
- Wilson AsforaMiami$1.3M
- Steven VanniMiami$1.2M
- Robert StarkeMiami$1M
- Cesar GuerreroMiami$914K
- Santiago FiguereoMiami$876K
- Jonathan JagidMiami$765K
- Timur UrakovMiami$652K
- Ian CoteMiami$231K
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.