Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Alexander Vaccaro

Orthopaedic Surgery Philadelphia, PA Medical Doctor

NPI 1932148798 CMS profile 268560

833 Chestnut St Ste 1220, Philadelphia, PA 19107

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General payments

$4,520,263

477 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$816,116

Paid to them · 20 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$426,568

7 holdings reported · through program year 2025

Research they led as principal investigator

$131,619 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2025

Through program year 2025, Alexander Vaccaro of Philadelphia, PA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $4,520,263 across 477 general payments and $816,116 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $131,619 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $426,568 across 7 holdings.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

14 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $79,737 53
2025 Research $227,323 12
2024 General $582,627 89
2024 Research $125,089 2
2023 General $627,038 57
2023 Research $463,704 6
2022 General $696,491 61
2021 General $776,113 63
2020 General $798,484 34
2019 General $959,774 120
2022 Ownership $15,681 1
2021 Ownership $131,221 2
2020 Ownership $131,383 2
2019 Ownership $148,283 2

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Alexander Vaccaro
  • Orthopaedic Surgery median
  • Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Alexander Vaccaro were reported at $79,737. Among 15,343 Orthopaedic Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $563 and the middle half received between $147 and $2,717.

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Year Alexander Vaccaro Orthopaedic Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $959,774 $644 $140–$2,844 $163
2020 $798,484 $312 $75–$1,860 $114
2021 $776,113 $520 $117–$2,495 $132
2022 $696,491 $598 $128–$2,731 $149
2023 $627,038 $461 $128–$2,264 $160
2024 $582,627 $497 $134–$2,475 $164
2025 $79,737 $563 $147–$2,717 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Stryker Corporation $3,394,493 135 payments
  2. Medtronic, Inc. $432,467 27 payments
  3. Globus Medical, Inc. $272,440 101 payments
  4. Medtronic USA, Inc. $188,464 15 payments
  5. Atlas Spine, Inc. $69,618 11 payments
  6. NuVasive, Inc. $51,723 7 payments
  7. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $27,183 13 payments
  8. Alphatec Spine, Inc $24,533 11 payments
  9. Curiteva, Inc. $13,814 5 payments
  10. Integrity Implants Inc. $11,298 17 payments
  11. Other $34,231 135 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Royalty or License $4,213,229 103 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $167,802 33 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $74,447 87 payments
  4. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $28,896 8 payments
  5. Food and Beverage $25,006 244 payments
  6. Entertainment $10,384 1 payment
  7. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program $500 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. SERRATO Thoracolumbar $1,863,711 18 payments
  2. XIA $809,243 25 payments
  3. SERRATO Thoracolumbar $554,791 23 payments
  4. RIALTO SI FUSION SYSTEM $334,720 13 payments
  5. RIALTO Tl $182,035 9 payments
  6. XIA 3 $156,275 10 payments
  7. XPAND $118,952 6 payments
  8. RIALTO Tl $96,977 4 payments
  9. TRITANIUM $83,301 30 payments
  10. ES2 $43,437 13 payments
  11. Other $366,458 316 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Spinal Elements, Inc. $816,116 20 payments

Records

497 reported

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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