Stephen George
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Miami, FLNPI 1467694604
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $200,848 of the $300,344 with a category attached, or 66.9%. Stryker accounts for 60.7% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 318 payments — averaging $944.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$182K
- Altus Partners. LLC$65K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$26K
- VB Spine LLC$11K
- Globus Medical$10K
- Medtronic$3K
- plus $3K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$63,88821%
- Consulting fees$200,84867%
- Travel & lodging$25,9769%
- Food & beverage$9,3653%
- Entertainment$2670%
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 | 169 | $182,184 |
| Altus Partners. LLC | 10 | $65,201 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 42 | $26,071 |
| VB Spine LLC | 8 | $11,492 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 30 | $10,185 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 33 | $2,528 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 1 | $1,350 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 14 | $504 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 3 | $451 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $111 |
| Abyrx, Inc | 1 | $108 |
| Orthopediatrics Corp. | 1 | $45 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $23 |
| Amniox Medical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$100,135
- Monaco Pedicle Screw System$63,888
- AIRO$63,525
- SERRATO$31,477
- MESA SPINAL SYSTEM$28,713
- STRYKER NAV3$16,900
- MESA RAIL$16,242
- EVEREST$15,912
- XIA 3$10,563
- MONTEREY AL$10,161
- Rod Link Reducer$8,713
- RAVINE LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$5,200
- NILE ALTERNATIVE FIXATION SYSTEM$5,200
- N/A$4,550
- SPINEMAP$3,250
- CORE$3,250
- EXPEDIUM$2,924
- STRYKER NAV3I$2,275
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$1,950
- NONE$901
How this compares
$300,344 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 159 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Florida.
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Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Miami
- Harry ShufflebargerMiami$3.5M
- Thomas ErricoMiami$1.6M
- Emmanuel MengaMiami$215K
- Amar RajadhyakshaMiami$193K
- Frank EismontMiami$117K
- Jaime Gomez HernandezMiami$79K
- Nathan LebwohlMiami$48K
- Paul KellerMelbourne$3.4M
- Thomas SweeneySarasota$2.3M
- Geoffrey CronenTampa$2.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.