Thomas Errico
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Miami, FLNPI 1366455693
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,484,728 of the $1,627,746 with a category attached, or 91.2%. Stryker accounts for 92.3% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $297,660 and has fallen 72.2% since, to $82,689 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 180 payments — averaging $9043.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$1.5M
- Altus Partners. LLC$120K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- Highridge Medical LLC$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$622
- Johnson & Johnson$198
- plus $402 from 6 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $13,127 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.
- Pfizer$13K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,484,72891%
- Consulting fees$119,2907%
- Travel & lodging$18,6381%
- Food & beverage$4,8230%
- Entertainment$2670%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 131 | $1,502,377 |
| Altus Partners. LLC | 15 | $119,763 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 2 | $2,277 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 10 | $2,108 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 8 | $622 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $198 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $112 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $111 |
| Abyrx, Inc | 1 | $108 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $28 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$992,986
- EVEREST$425,104
- Monaco Pedicle Screw System$112,303
- SERRATO$35,886
- XIA$28,192
- TRITANIUM$26,192
- MESA SPINAL SYSTEM$19,656
- STRYKER NAV3$13,500
- MESA RAIL$12,064
- GENERAL K2M PRODUCT DISCUSSION$10,594
- MESA$10,236
- RAVINE LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$6,000
- NILE ALTERNATIVE FIXATION SYSTEM$6,000
- Other - Miscellaneous$2,252
- NILE$2,000
- NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$1,912
- Vital$1,817
- AIRO$421
- EXPEDIUM$387
- Vitality$111
How this compares
$1,627,746 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 159 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Florida.
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Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Miami
- Harry ShufflebargerMiami$3.5M
- Stephen GeorgeMiami$300K
- Emmanuel MengaMiami$215K
- Amar RajadhyakshaMiami$193K
- Frank EismontMiami$117K
- Jaime Gomez HernandezMiami$79K
- Nathan LebwohlMiami$48K
- Paul KellerMelbourne$3.4M
- Thomas SweeneySarasota$2.3M
- Geoffrey CronenTampa$2.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.