Has Stephen Arndt, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $171,464 in general payments to Stephen Arndt, MD across 378 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Stephen Arndt, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Stephen Arndt, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Stephen Arndt, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Jacksonville, FLNPI 1346301322

Payments from drug & device makers

$171,464in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 378 payments — averaging $453.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medline Industries LP$32K
Intelivation Technologies, LLC$27K
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$20K
Flower Orthopedics Coporation$18K
International Life Sciences$17K
Arthrex$15K
plus $42K from 40 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$4000%
Consulting fees$131,63178%
Speaking & faculty fees$12,2507%
Travel & lodging$7,6795%
Food & beverage$13,3598%
Education$3,1122%
Gifts$330%

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
Medline Industries LP	60	$32,495
Intelivation Technologies, LLC	39	$26,500
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	28	$20,034
Flower Orthopedics Coporation	2	$18,243
International Life Sciences	10	$16,548
Arthrex	14	$15,328
Biocomposites Inc	28	$11,661
Accufix Surgical Inc.	3	$6,183
In2bones USA, LLC	6	$5,135
Stryker(2 entities)	61	$4,987
Bone Support Inc.	8	$3,614
Team 1, LLC	7	$2,436
Metric Medical Devices, Inc.	7	$2,107
Vilex LLC	1	$1,000
Paragon 28, Inc.	15	$915
Organogenesis Inc.	7	$606
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	7	$408
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.	26	$326
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	8	$324
Cerapedics Inc.	2	$288
Voom Medical Devices, Inc.	3	$281
Johnson & Johnson	6	$276
Acumed LLC	2	$248
Sanara Medtech Inc.	2	$234
Trilliant Surgical LLC.	2	$200
AMDT Holdings, Inc.	1	$116
Mimedx Group, Inc.	1	$113
Zimmer Biomet	1	$99
Next Science LLC	1	$86
Theramicro, Inc.	1	$79
Novastep Inc.	1	$75
Ossio Inc	1	$73
Bioventus LLC	2	$59
Tenex Health Inc.	1	$51
Highridge Medical LLC	1	$49
EBI, LLC	1	$49
Kerecis Limited	2	$46
Smith+Nephew	1	$34
Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc.	1	$34
Amgen	2	$30
Pfizer	1	$24
Zimvie Inc.	1	$18
Curonix LLC	1	$15
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$15
Embody, Inc.	1	$11
Dynasplint Systems Inc.	1	$9

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.

MEDLINE UNITE$76,963
MEDLINE INDUSTRIES, INC.$25,650
FLEXBAND$15,845
Stimulan$7,600
TACTOSET$6,323
MEDLINE$6,300
MJFS4536$6,220
Accu-Joint$6,183
Arthrosurface Hammertoes$4,688
CoLink$3,500
Integrity$3,500
CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$3,450
Stimulan Rapid Cure$3,300
PENDING$3,150
Toe Motion$2,775
Hercules$1,500
Integrity implant$1,386
HINTERMANN$1,000
LINK External Fixator$1,000
LINK$813

How this compares

$171,464 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,263 orthopaedic surgery providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$2,595,552

Medicare patients

688

Services billed

5,945

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 Potassium	15	$21,335
Calcipotriene	53	$9,721
Lidocaine	196	$8,479
Ciclopirox	47	$4,134
Mefenamic Acid	14	$3,587
MupirocinMupirocin Calcium	32	$2,891
Meloxicam	314	$1,829
Ketoconazole	44	$701
Diclofenac Sodium	15	$462
Methylprednisolone	71	$429
Doxycycline Hyclate	21	$347
Gabapentin	47	$319
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	23	$310
Ibuprofen	36	$232
Levofloxacin	19	$197

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Jacksonville

Bryan SpringerJacksonville$6.3M
Jorge AcevedoJacksonville$3.3M
Rahul DeshmukhJacksonville$769K
Andrew CooperClearwater$102M
Richard HynesMelbourne$35M
Mark FrankleTemple Terrace$31.4M
David WatsonTemple Terrace$21M
Roy SandersTemple Terrace$19.6M
George HaidukewychOrlando$10M
Martin RocheFt. Lauderdale$7.3M

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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.

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