Has Steven Glassman, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $249,191 in general payments to Steven Glassman, MD across 325 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 Steven Glassman, 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 Steven Glassman, 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.

Steven Glassman, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Louisville, KYNPI 1275531501

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $189,465 of the $249,191 with a category attached, or 76.0%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 57.3% of the total.

$249,191in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 325 payments — averaging $766.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$143K
Stryker$62K
Globus Medical$23K
VB Spine LLC$8K
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$7K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$5K
plus $2K from 8 others

$296,692in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 20 payments — averaging $14,835 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.

Medtronic$226K
BD$71K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$189,46576%
Speaking & faculty fees$35,20014%
Travel & lodging$15,4156%
Food & beverage$8,9804%
Education$1300%

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)	197	$142,671
Stryker	45	$62,360
Globus Medical(2 entities)	26	$23,444
VB Spine LLC	9	$7,514
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	6	$6,685
Alphatec Spine, Inc	10	$4,965
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	6	$423
BD	3	$315
Edwards Lifesciences	3	$258
EBI, LLC	1	$146
Centinel Spine, LLC	1	$143
Cerapedics Inc.	12	$130
Johnson & Johnson	5	$118
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$19

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$51,292
CD HORIZON$27,297
ALIF$22,215
UNID_PASS$20,580
EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$13,911
VERTEX$8,173
INFUSE BONE GRAFT$8,000
GENERAL K2M PRODUCT DISCUSSION$7,313
Vulcan Spinal System$7,313
MAKO$6,663
Other - Miscellaneous$4,374
AIRO$4,125
GRAFTONAND GRAFTON PLUSDEMINERALIZED BONE MATRIX (DBM)$1,600
NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$1,572
ATLAS$1,138
STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$1,078
MAZOR X SYSTEM$670
Battalion PLIF - PS$281
HemoSphere$198
Pulse$196

How this compares

$249,191 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 29 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$156,100

Medicare patients

179

Services billed

653

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	38	$200
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	12	$134
Meloxicam	25	$66

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Louisville

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Mladen DjurasovicLouisville$3.1M
Roger OwensLouisville$1.3M
Charles CrawfordLouisville$836K
Joseph LarattaLouisville$819K
Venu VemuriLouisville$796K
Kathryn McCarthy MulloolyLouisville$426K
John DimarLouisville$266K
John JohnsonLouisville$247K
Mitchell CampbellLouisville$212K

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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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