RxDoctor Payments Data

Scott Goldsmith, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Lithia, FLNPI 1619166261

Payments from drug & device makers

$13,389in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 140 payments — averaging $95.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Stryker$6K
  • Johnson & Johnson$6K
  • Medtronic$655
  • MVP Orthopedics Inc$294
  • Alphatec Spine, Inc$277
  • Coastal Medical Technologies LLC$209
  • plus $629 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$4,95337%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$2001%
  • Travel & lodging$1,2019%
  • Food & beverage$7,03553%

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

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Stryker106$5,769
Johnson & Johnson8$5,557
Medtronic5$655
MVP Orthopedics Inc3$294
Alphatec Spine, Inc1$277
Coastal Medical Technologies LLC5$209
Trice Medical, Inc.1$200
Smith+Nephew2$181
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC1$123
Theragen, Inc.2$32
Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc.1$20
Abbott1$16
Arthrex1$16
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.1$15
Heraeus Medical, LLC.1$14
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated1$12

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.

How this compares

$13,389 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,263 orthopaedic surgery providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$169,785
Medicare patients
251
Services billed
5,108

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Celecoxib93$1,835
Mupirocin218$1,366
Ibuprofen295$1,280
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen166$1,030
Omeprazole233$743
Diclofenac Sodium29$535
Meloxicam215$510
Methylprednisolone45$360
Tramadol Hcl125$267
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl60$230
Naproxen41$215
Cephalexin14$93
Amoxicillin56$47
Clindamycin Hcl23$38

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Lithia

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