Stephen Robbins, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Glendale, WINPI 1790791713
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $122,361 of the $188,609 with a category attached, or 64.9%. Medtronic accounts for 78.6% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $136,142 and has fallen 88.4% since, to $15,750 in 2024. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in WI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 23 payments — averaging $8200.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$148K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$17K
- Innovasis Inc$16K
- Premia Spine, Ltd.$5K
- RTI Surgical, Inc$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$44
- plus $84 from 3 others
Across 40 payments — averaging $2245.32 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Premia Spine, Ltd.$90K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$122,36165%
- Consulting fees$40,09921%
- Food & beverage$2200%
- Other$25,92914%
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) | 5 | $148,289 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 8 | $17,000 |
| Innovasis Inc | 2 | $15,841 |
| Premia Spine, Ltd. | 1 | $5,349 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $2,000 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $44 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 2 | $32 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Stryker | 1 | $26 |
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.
- NANOSS ABGS FAMILY$15,750
- nanoLOCK-C$14,194
- nanoLOCK-L$11,735
- TOPS$5,349
- STREAMLINE* OCT OCCIPITO-CERVICO-THORACIC SYSTEM$1,750
- STREAMLINE OCT SYSTEM$1,500
How this compares
$188,609 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 498 orthopaedic surgery providers in Wisconsin.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 82 | $580 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 32 | $389 |
| Gabapentin | 46 | $231 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 17 | $207 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 60 | $190 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Glendale
- Robert ChurchillGrafton$7.7M
- Richard IllgenMadison$6.1M
- Jeffrey McLaughlinOshkosh$2M
- Clifford TribusMadison$1.4M
- Thomas ZdeblickMadison$1.1M
- Justin MitchellOnalaska$666K
- Christopher BibboStevens Point$615K
- Robert LimoniAppleton$514K
- Paul AndersonVerona$456K
- Shawn HenniganAppleton$455K
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.