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

Seth Williams

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Madison, WI Medical Doctor

NPI 1306054390 CMS profile 513765

621 Science Dr, Madison, WI 53711

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General payments

$949,832

323 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$221,547

6 holdings reported · through program year 2025

Through program year 2025, Seth Williams of Madison, WI is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $949,832 across 323 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $221,547 across 6 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.

General payments for this record sit in the 94th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

13 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $24,367 19
2024 General $20,215 32
2023 General $498,663 44
2022 General $48,967 50
2021 General $80,623 62
2020 General $47,909 48
2019 General $229,088 68
2025 Ownership $37,285 1
2024 Ownership $29,472 1
2023 Ownership $21,901 1
2022 Ownership $18,750 1
2021 Ownership $4,050 1
2019 Ownership $110,089 1

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Seth Williams
  • Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine median
  • Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Seth Williams were reported at $24,367. Among 1,704 Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine profiles paid that year, the median was $2,061 and the middle half received between $347 and $14,651.

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Year Seth Williams Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine median Middle half National median
2019 $229,088 $2,106 $337–$18,608 $163
2020 $47,909 $1,213 $156–$15,082 $114
2021 $80,623 $1,834 $271–$15,617 $132
2022 $48,967 $2,015 $320–$17,036 $149
2023 $498,663 $1,925 $336–$14,599 $160
2024 $20,215 $2,110 $341–$12,483 $164
2025 $24,367 $2,061 $347–$14,651 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medtronic, Inc. $406,189 25 payments
  2. Medtronic USA, Inc. $173,229 15 payments
  3. Orthofix Medical, Inc. $121,073 43 payments
  4. Stryker Corporation $91,926 104 payments
  5. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $54,041 40 payments
  6. Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation $48,036 70 payments
  7. Exapnding Innovations, Inc. $37,768 12 payments
  8. VB Spine LLC $12,456 4 payments
  9. Alphatec Spine, Inc $3,125 5 payments
  10. MiRus, LLC $1,721 3 payments
  11. Other $269 2 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Royalty or License $556,873 48 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $203,208 63 payments
  3. Honoraria $112,000 1 payment
  4. Acquisitions $41,412 3 payments
  5. Travel and Lodging $31,189 107 payments
  6. Food and Beverage $5,151 101 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. COUGAR $51,194 15 payments
  2. EXPEDIUM $50,784 17 payments
  3. ORACLE Spacer $49,913 8 payments
  4. RAVINE LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM $36,991 10 payments
  5. nanoLOCK-C $22,669 2 payments
  6. X-PAC Intervertebral Device $19,231 4 payments
  7. nanoLOCK-L $18,742 1 payment
  8. CASCADIA $14,925 9 payments
  9. Facet Fixation $8,375 4 payments
  10. X-PAC $7,813 2 payments
  11. Other $76,806 162 payments

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

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 42 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$118,811

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

186

Average age 73

Services billed

427

94 women, 92 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
Arthritis 75%
High blood pressure 72%
Diabetes 33%
Depression 33%
Osteoporosis 23%
Ischemic heart disease 22%
Atrial fibrillation 20%
Heart failure 19%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

323 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

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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