Who Paid My Doc
Stuart Hershman
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Ft Lauderdale, FL Medical Doctor
NPI 1326202151 CMS profile 60698
6000 N Federal Hwy, Ft Lauderdale, FL 33308
General payments
$118,853
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$249,916
Research they led as principal investigator
$10,021
Through program year 2025, Stuart Hershman of Ft Lauderdale, FL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $118,853 across 172 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $10,021 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $249,916 across 4 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 78th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
11 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $17,558 | 19 | |
| 2024 | General | $22,026 | 26 | |
| 2023 | General | $10,496 | 25 | |
| 2022 | General | $16,841 | 36 | |
| 2021 | General | $15,646 | 28 | |
| 2020 | General | $12,741 | 7 | |
| 2019 | General | $23,546 | 31 | |
| 2025 | Ownership | $99,979 | 1 | |
| 2024 | Ownership | $49,979 | 1 | |
| 2023 | Ownership | $49,979 | 1 | |
| 2022 | Ownership | $49,979 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Stuart Hershman
- Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine median
- Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Stuart Hershman were reported at $17,558. 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.
Show as a table
| Year | Stuart Hershman | Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $23,546 | $2,106 | $337–$18,608 | $163 |
| 2020 | $12,741 | $1,213 | $156–$15,082 | $114 |
| 2021 | $15,646 | $1,834 | $271–$15,617 | $132 |
| 2022 | $16,841 | $2,015 | $320–$17,036 | $149 |
| 2023 | $10,496 | $1,925 | $336–$14,599 | $160 |
| 2024 | $22,026 | $2,110 | $341–$12,483 | $164 |
| 2025 | $17,558 | $2,061 | $347–$14,651 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Prescribing to Medicare patients
Part D · data year 2024 · 2 drugsPart D claims
64
Drug cost
$51,678
Branded share of claims
25%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tymlos Abaloparatide | Brand | 16 | $51,266 | |
| Gabapentin | Generic | 48 | $412 |
Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 18,934 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 43 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$496,007
Medicare patients
229
Services billed
1,079
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Arthritis | 75% | |
| Depression | 33% | |
| Osteoporosis | 33% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 28% | |
| Diabetes | 25% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 24% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 21% |
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
172 reportedEvery 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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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.