Has Themistocles Protopsaltis, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $446,948 in general payments to Themistocles Protopsaltis, MD across 341 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 Themistocles Protopsaltis, 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 Themistocles Protopsaltis, 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.

Themistocles Protopsaltis, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1245407659

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (29.7%), consulting fees and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 58.9% of the total. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in NY 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.

$446,948in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 341 payments — averaging $1310.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$263K
Altus Partners. LLC$135K
Medtronic$29K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$11K
Medicrea USA, Corp.$6K
Curiteva, Inc.$1K
plus $2K from 8 others

$137,375in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 19 payments — averaging $7230.26 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.

Centinel Spine, LLC$84K
Si-bone, Inc.$50K
Medtronic$4K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$132,59430%
Consulting fees$123,02928%
Speaking & faculty fees$112,06825%
Travel & lodging$66,17115%
Food & beverage$12,7913%
Entertainment$2960%

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)	222	$263,226
Altus Partners. LLC	15	$134,743
Medtronic(2 entities)	48	$28,788
Alphatec Spine, Inc	23	$10,597
Medicrea USA, Corp.	11	$6,198
Curiteva, Inc.	2	$1,186
Zimmer Biomet	8	$849
Suvon Surgical LLC	2	$520
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	3	$241
Stryker	1	$169
Smaio USA Corporation	1	$167
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$140
DJO, LLC	2	$100
Arthrex	1	$24

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.

Monaco Pedicle Screw System$126,447
Excelsius - GPS$50,614
ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$47,671
Pulse$31,975
EXCELSIUS$22,850
CD HORIZON$20,403
Quartex$18,169
INDEPENDENCE$12,042
ELSA$10,674
MARS 3V/3VL$10,625
CORBEL$9,838
Other - Miscellaneous$9,275
ELSA, ELSA AL/ATP$9,267
Excelsius3D Imaging System$7,975
PASS-LP$6,097
UNiD$6,097
RISE-L$4,750
REFLECT$2,850
3D Planning$2,256
CALIBER$1,156

How this compares

$446,948 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,079 orthopaedic surgery providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$313,349

Medicare patients

357

Services billed

887

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
Gabapentin	64	$866

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in New York

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Edwin SuNew York$13.2M
William RicciNew York$11.6M
Steven HaasNew York$11.3M
Giles ScuderiNew York$10.7M
Joseph ZuckermanNew York$9.9M
Evan FlatowNew York$9.6M
Bradford ParsonsNew York$9.4M
Geoffrey WestrichNew York$7.1M

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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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