Shaina Lipa, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Boston, MANPI 1598178444
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 165 payments — averaging $368.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$51K
- Globus Medical$4K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$3K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- Stryker$476
- Zimmer Biomet$237
- plus $201 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$20,33033%
- Speaking & faculty fees$20,94034%
- Travel & lodging$13,28322%
- Food & beverage$6,24110%
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) | 115 | $51,317 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 36 | $3,605 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 1 | $3,390 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 3 | $1,568 |
| Stryker | 3 | $476 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $237 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $185 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $16 |
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.
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$19,536
- O-ARM$2,206
- CD HORIZON$2,169
- Other - Miscellaneous$1,520
- XLIF$1,514
- ILLUMISITE$1,470
- DIVERGENCE$1,260
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$568
- Pulse$288
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$198
- GRAFTONAND GRAFTON PLUSDEMINERALIZED BONE MATRIX (DBM)$187
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$170
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$170
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$159
- AUTOFIX$156
- MAKO$150
- Excelsius - GPS$148
- RISE$129
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$110
- NVM5$106
How this compares
$60,794 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 542 orthopaedic surgery providers in Massachusetts.
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 | 15 | $123 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 14 | $65 |
| Meloxicam | 14 | $12 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Boston
- Paul TornettaBoston$16.7M
- Thomas ThornhillBoston$12M
- Andrew FreibergBoston$5.9M
- Jon WarnerBoston$5.5M
- Wolfgang FitzBoston$3.7M
- Young Min KwonBoston$2.8M
- Lyle MicheliBoston$996K
- Tony TannouryBoston$912K
- John KwonBoston$673K
- Christopher ChiodoBoston$539K
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.