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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,982,320 in general payments to Steven Poletti, MD across 157 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 Poletti, 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 Poletti, 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 Poletti, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Mt Pleasant, SCNPI 1508841859

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $2,946,133 of the $2,982,320 with a category attached, or 98.8%. Globus Medical accounts for 100.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in SC 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.

$2,982,320in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 157 payments — averaging $18,996 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$3M
Si-bone, Inc.$59
Boston Scientific$43
Abbott$38
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.$25
Spinal Simplicity, LLC$25
plus $40 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$2,946,13399%
Consulting fees$16,0001%
Speaking & faculty fees$18,0001%
Food & beverage$2,1880%

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	146	$2,982,091
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$59
Boston Scientific	3	$43
Abbott	2	$38
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$25
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	1	$25
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	1	$16
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	1	$13
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$11

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.

RETAIN$1,062,875
RISE-L$516,757
RISE-L . RISE-L A/L$430,446
CREO$397,855
CREO MIS Stabilization System$346,091
REVOLVE$137,038
RISE$87,535
INDEPENDENCE MIS$18,500
ALIF$3,500
MARS Anterior Retractor$3,500
INDEPENDENCE$3,000
ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$3,000
EXCELSIUS$2,500
HEDRON IA$156
Excelsius3D Imaging System$141
Concord$110

How this compares

$2,982,320 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 32 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$185,697

Medicare patients

592

Services billed

2,183

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	33	$367
Tizanidine Hcl	33	$289
Oxycodone Hcl	16	$244
Methylprednisolone	33	$217
Hydromorphone Hcl	12	$196
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	13	$177
Gabapentin	12	$104
Tramadol Hcl	21	$61
Diazepam	12	$29
Meloxicam	11	$19

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Mt Pleasant

Donald JohnsonMt Pleasant$2.9M
Timothy BryanMt Pleasant$135K
Benjamin SchellMt Pleasant$31K
Gene MasseyMyrtle Beach$1.2M
Rakesh ChokshiFlorence$727K
Willie EdwardsFlorence$687K
Ivan LamottaColumbia$299K
Daniel ReidConway$152K
James AymondCharleston$91K
Michael PeelleColumbia$77K

See the full list for South Carolina →

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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