Stuart Hershman, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Ft Lauderdale, FLNPI 1326202151
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $82,386 of the $118,853 with a category attached, or 69.3%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 48.2% of the total.
Across 172 payments — averaging $691.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$57K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$22K
- Bioventus LLC$12K
- Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.$12K
- Biocomposites Inc$10K
- Southern Spine, LLC$1K
- plus $4K from 6 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $2004.20 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.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$10K
Across 4 payments — averaging $24,995 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.$100K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$82,38669%
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,2507%
- Travel & lodging$24,15520%
- Food & beverage$4,0613%
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) | 91 | $57,302 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 14 | $22,084 |
| Bioventus LLC | 12 | $12,191 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 18 | $11,621 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 17 | $10,480 |
| Southern Spine, LLC | 1 | $1,200 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 3 | $923 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $898 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 1 | $585 |
| Medtronic | 11 | $564 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $539 |
| Stryker | 1 | $465 |
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$32,918
- EXPEDIUM$21,998
- TLIF$18,597
- OsteoCentric 4.0 x 130mm LOCKING BONE SCREW FASTENER ST$11,430
- Stimulan$7,895
- BoneScalpel$6,986
- BONESCALPEL & SONICONE (O.R.)$4,500
- Stimulan Rapid Cure$2,500
- ALIF$2,413
- Excelsius - GPS$2,309
- Other - Miscellaneous$876
- Pulse$539
- Other$480
- NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$465
- RELINE$310
- TLX$134
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$110
How this compares
$118,853 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 159 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Florida.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| TymlosAbaloparatide | 16 | $51,266 |
| Gabapentin | 48 | $412 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Ft Lauderdale
- Kalman BlumbergFt Lauderdale$397K
- Harry ShufflebargerMiami$3.5M
- Paul KellerMelbourne$3.4M
- Thomas SweeneySarasota$2.3M
- Geoffrey CronenTampa$2.2M
- James BillysOdessa$1.9M
- Mark DekutoskiDestin$1.8M
- Farhan SiddiqiOdessa$1.7M
- Samuel JosephSafety Harbor$1.7M
- Thomas ErricoMiami$1.6M
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.