Steven Lyons, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Tampa, FLNPI 1275530479
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $6,339,249 of the $6,663,816 with a category attached, or 95.1%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 97.6% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,555,350 and has fallen 97.5% since, to $88,940 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in FL 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 416 payments — averaging $16,019 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$6.5M
- Canary Medical USA LLC$156K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$422
- Innovation Technologies Inc$365
- Next Science LLC$297
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$285
- plus $1K from 15 others
Across 65 payments — averaging $3723.16 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.
- Zimmer Biomet$146K
- Canary Medical USA LLC$96K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$6,339,24995%
- Consulting fees$294,1924%
- Travel & lodging$16,5340%
- Food & beverage$11,6010%
- Education$2,2390%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 371 | $6,505,678 |
| Canary Medical USA LLC | 3 | $155,535 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 2 | $422 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 3 | $365 |
| Next Science LLC | 3 | $297 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $285 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $280 |
| Davol Inc. | 9 | $154 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $153 |
| Peter Brasseler Holdings, LLC | 1 | $128 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $108 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $99 |
| Sotera Wireless, Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 1 | $48 |
| Shalby Advanced Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Stryker | 1 | $30 |
| Vertex | 1 | $26 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $25 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Persona$6,312,655
- Persona Revision$97,992
- Persona The Personalized Knee OsseoTi$31,314
- PD-Knee-New Product$13,006
- ROSA$2,537
- mymobility Platform$2,456
- Connected Health Product Portfolio$823
- ROSA-Knee$640
- Oxford$522
- Other - Miscellaneous$422
- Irrisept$332
- Biasurge$285
- PICO 14$248
- SurgX$234
- Xperience$234
- BlastX$234
- G7$222
- Arcos$206
- Stimulan$153
How this compares
$6,663,816 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,263 orthopaedic surgery providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 189 | $7,061 |
| Meloxicam | 173 | $668 |
| Ibuprofen | 40 | $542 |
| Amoxicillin | 150 | $346 |
| Methocarbamol | 20 | $192 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 23 | $189 |
| Methylprednisolone | 27 | $174 |
| Mupirocin | 16 | $98 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 14 | $60 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 11 | $58 |
| Prednisone | 12 | $10 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Tampa
- Andrew CooperClearwater$102M
- Richard HynesMelbourne$34.8M
- Mark FrankleTemple Terrace$31M
- Roy SandersTemple Terrace$19.6M
- George HaidukewychOrlando$10M
- Robert SantrockFernandina Beach$7.3M
- Martin RocheFt. Lauderdale$7.1M
- Thomas BernasekTemple Terrace$6.4M
- Bryan SpringerJacksonville$6.3M
- Kenneth GustkeTemple Terrace$5.2M
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.