Vincent Depalma, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · London, KYNPI 1295155927
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,110 of the $4,765 with a category attached, or 65.3%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 34.0% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in KY, where the typical reported total is $61,310.
Across 52 payments — averaging $91.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Si-bone, Inc.$776
- Stryker$444
- Medtronic$434
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$186
- plus $172 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$49010%
- Travel & lodging$94520%
- Food & beverage$3,11065%
- Education$2195%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 8 | $1,620 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 15 | $1,132 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 7 | $776 |
| Stryker | 3 | $444 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $434 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 4 | $186 |
| Amgen | 4 | $54 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $30 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $28 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Teligen$924
- VIPER$488
- FIBERGRAFT BG Morsels$256
- NONE$219
- NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$134
- O-ARM-Spine$127
- V-LOC 180$124
- ViviGen$123
- Vivigen MIS Delivery System$120
- Spine & Trauma 3D Navigation$120
How this compares
$4,765 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 29 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Kentucky.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 85 | $371 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in London
- Jeffery GumLouisville$3.5M
- Mladen DjurasovicLouisville$3.1M
- Keneth StrengePaducah$2.6M
- Roger OwensLouisville$1.3M
- Robert KnetscheDanville$1.2M
- Charles CrawfordLouisville$836K
- Joseph LarattaLouisville$819K
- Venu VemuriLouisville$796K
- Kathryn McCarthy MulloolyLouisville$426K
- John DimarLouisville$266K
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.