Todd Volkman, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Mobile, ALNPI 1518924232
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by ownership interests: $23,342 of the $34,240 with a category attached, or 68.2%. S. Alabama Surgical Services, LLC accounts for 68.2% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $25,354 and has fallen 97.5% since, to $644 in 2025.
Across 39 payments — averaging $877.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- S. Alabama Surgical Services, LLC$23K
- Cutting Edge Spine, LLC$6K
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$943
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$203
- plus $334 from 6 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $629.40 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.
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$629
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,87517%
- Travel & lodging$3,2289%
- Food & beverage$1,7335%
- Entertainment$620%
- Ownership interest$23,34268%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| S. Alabama Surgical Services, LLC | 1 | $23,342 |
| Cutting Edge Spine, LLC | 1 | $5,875 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 16 | $2,324 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $1,220 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 9 | $943 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $203 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $149 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $82 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $17 |
| Amgen | 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.
- Medical Device$1,609
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$1,042
- Medical Devices$694
- NGage Surgical Mesh System$652
- Unity Lumbosacral Fixation System$652
- TDX Posterior Dynamic Stabilization$652
- Spinal Fixation System (SFS)$652
- SKYHAWK Lateral Interbody Fusion System & Lateral Plate System$652
- Restrata Wound Matrix$203
- MazorX - Renaissance$161
How this compares
$34,240 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 20 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Alabama.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tizanidine Hcl | 906 | $4,661 |
| Celecoxib | 117 | $2,122 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 140 | $1,215 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 89 | $1,200 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 90 | $1,192 |
| Meloxicam | 304 | $917 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 237 | $771 |
| Methylprednisolone | 84 | $751 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 118 | $564 |
| Gabapentin | 79 | $460 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 39 | $370 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 51 | $325 |
| Methocarbamol | 48 | $267 |
| Pregabalin | 25 | $251 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 17 | $53 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Mobile
- Bendt PetersenMobile$30K
- James WestMobile$25K
- Asra ToobaieMobile$9K
- Javier RetoHuntsville$768K
- Timothy HoltMontgomery$478K
- Timothy BassettTuscaloosa$291K
- Phillip KravetzCullman$224K
- Charles GordonDaphne$208K
- Larry ParkerHuntsville$136K
- Morris SeymourHuntsville$9K
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.