RxDoctor Payments Data

Vincent Silvaggio, MD

Orthopedic Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1598730699

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $178,117 of the $178,819 with a category attached, or 99.6%. Globus Medical accounts for 99.6% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $63,148 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $133 in 2024. Among orthopedic surgery clinicians in PA 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.

$178,819in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $10,519 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Globus Medical$178K
  • Integrity Implants Inc.$407
  • Spinal Elements, Inc.$145
  • Medacta USA, Inc.$133

What the payments were for

  • Royalty or licence$178,117100%
  • Travel & lodging$3190%
  • Food & beverage$3380%
  • Gifts$440%

General payments by program year

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24

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Globus Medical(2 entities)11$178,134
Integrity Implants Inc.3$407
Spinal Elements, Inc.2$145
Medacta USA, Inc.1$133

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.

How this compares

$178,819 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 43 orthopedic surgery providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$127,560
Medicare patients
292
Services billed
972

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Gabapentin104$607
Methylprednisolone113$506
Diclofenac Sodium39$498
Mupirocin70$314
Meloxicam95$166
Celecoxib11$144
Prednisone40$103
Methocarbamol16$94
Oxycodone Hcl23$93
Naproxen11$60
Amoxicillin18$15

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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