Steven Ludwig, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Baltimore, MDNPI 1912954454
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (40.6%), royalties or licence payments and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Globus Medical accounts for 61.7% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in MD 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 543 payments — averaging $4913.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$1.6M
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$710K
- Stryker$149K
- Atlas Spine, Inc.$70K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$37K
- Si-bone, Inc.$26K
- plus $29K from 14 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $28,125 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.
- Baxter Healthcare$112K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$994,32337%
- Consulting fees$1,082,83241%
- Speaking & faculty fees$515,41419%
- Travel & lodging$61,2102%
- Food & beverage$14,2231%
- Entertainment$600%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 298 | $1,647,515 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 25 | $710,470 |
| Stryker | 53 | $148,756 |
| Atlas Spine, Inc. | 11 | $69,970 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 43 | $36,933 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 37 | $25,897 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 23 | $22,599 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 18 | $2,358 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 10 | $924 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 5 | $784 |
| VB Spine LLC | 3 | $403 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $268 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 4 | $257 |
| Synthes GmbH | 1 | $250 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $219 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $216 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 1 | $110 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $104 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 1 | $8 |
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.
- XLIF$837,720
- EXPEDIUM$710,342
- MOUNTAINEER$710,342
- RELINE$124,904
- MOJAVE$91,925
- Excelsius - GPS$54,088
- MOJAVE EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$37,795
- Hi-JAK Cervical$33,576
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$24,680
- Pulse$22,195
- VIPER$22,033
- Solus ALIF$18,125
- Other - Miscellaneous$17,516
- CREO$16,672
- TRITANIUM$14,402
- CAPRI$13,500
- AERO$13,040
- SERRATO$13,040
- ES2$13,040
- HiJAK AC$11,291
How this compares
$2,668,062 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 49 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Maryland.
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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.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Baltimore
- John CarboneBaltimore$25M
- Paul McAfeeBaltimore$2.2M
- Amit JainBaltimore$250K
- Mesfin LemmaBaltimore$47K
- Daniel GelbBaltimore$40K
- Charles EdwardsBaltimore$17K
- Zan NaseerBaltimore$16K
- Maksim ShlykovBaltimore$14K
- Syed KarimBaltimore$12K
- David FalkBaltimore$10K
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.