Theodore Blaine, MD
Sports Medicine · New York, NYNPI 1376576421
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $460,749 of the $764,844 with a category attached, or 60.2%. Catalyst Orthoscience accounts for 89.1% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $296,694, more than ten times the $5,542 reported in 2019. Among sports medicine 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.
Across 196 payments — averaging $3902.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Catalyst Orthoscience$682K
- Lima USA, Inc.$24K
- Stryker$21K
- Encore Medical, LP$19K
- Smith+Nephew$12K
- Zimmer Biomet$3K
- plus $5K from 4 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $1231.03 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.
- Stryker$4K
Across 6 payments — averaging $12,783 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Catalyst Orthoscience$77K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$460,74960%
- Consulting fees$282,32037%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,3061%
- Travel & lodging$10,7121%
- Food & beverage$5,5551%
- Education$1,2000%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 85 | $681,732 |
| Lima USA, Inc. | 20 | $23,532 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 23 | $20,558 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 8 | $18,585 |
| Smith+Nephew | 19 | $12,430 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 10 | $3,445 |
| Arthrex | 25 | $3,159 |
| Limacorporate S.p.a. | 1 | $1,190 |
| Polaris Technology Solutions LLC | 4 | $185 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $28 |
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.
- R1 Reverse Shoulder System$259,100
- Catalyst CSR Shoulder System$194,149
- Catalyst Total CSR$184,591
- SMR Shoulder$23,356
- Archer CSR Total Shoulder System$19,544
- Archer R1 Reverse Shoulder System$19,544
- DJO SURGICAL$18,363
- Catalyst TSR$10,206
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$6,206
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$5,535
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$5,285
- EVOLVE$4,875
- LATITUDE EV$3,500
- SIMPLICITI$3,250
- FUSIONFLEX$2,250
- Extremities Product Portfolio$1,750
- Trabecular Metal (TM) Shoulder$1,500
- MICRORAPTOR$1,228
- Q-FIX$1,228
- Prima$1,190
How this compares
$764,844 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 403 sports medicine providers in New York.
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 sports medicine in New York
- Gregory DifeliceNew York$1.8M
- Robert MeislinNew York$720K
- Danyal NawabiNew York$592K
- Riley WilliamsNew York$512K
- Bryan KellyNew York$409K
- Samuel TaylorNew York$255K
- Eric StraussNew York$241K
- Michael FuNew York$210K
- Michael AlaiaNew York$207K
- Matthew TaoNew York$160K
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.