Medical Doctor Program year 2024 Reported 2019–2024 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

William Pfaff

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Rehoboth Beach, DE Medical Doctor

NPI 1346415411 CMS profile 686615

18947 John J Williams Hwy, Medical Arts Building, Unit 311, Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971

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General payments

$4,049

77 records reported · program years 2019–2024

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2024

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2024, William Pfaff of Rehoboth Beach, DE is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $4,049 across 77 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

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 31st percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

6 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2024 General $176 3
2023 General $215 8
2022 General $403 10
2021 General $378 14
2020 General $245 11
2019 General $2,633 31

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to William Pfaff were reported at $0. 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 William Pfaff Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine median Middle half National median
2019 $2,633 $2,106 $337–$18,608 $163
2020 $245 $1,213 $156–$15,082 $114
2021 $378 $1,834 $271–$15,617 $132
2022 $403 $2,015 $320–$17,036 $149
2023 $215 $1,925 $336–$14,599 $160
2024 $176 $2,110 $341–$12,483 $164
2025 $0 $2,061 $347–$14,651 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. Abbott Laboratories $3,816 67 payments
  2. Medtronic USA, Inc. $123 7 payments
  3. Globus Medical, Inc. $110 3 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. Travel and Lodging $2,046 9 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $2,004 68 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs $2,270 14 payments
  2. OCTRODE $642 14 payments
  3. Octrode SCS Leads Neuromodulation $241 7 payments
  4. Octrode SCS Leads Cardiac Arrhythmias and Heart Failure $198 8 payments
  5. Penta SCS Leads $191 7 payments
  6. VECTRIS $120 6 payments
  7. EXCELSIUS GPS $110 3 payments
  8. PROCLAIM $67 2 payments
  9. Neuromodulation Dspsbls and Accs $67 3 payments
  10. ETERNA $64 2 payments
  11. Other $72 10 payments

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 · 13 drugs

Part D claims

741

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$11,890

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

28.9%

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 11.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 140 $4,174
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 74 $1,860
Gabapentin Generic 74 $1,393
Pregabalin Generic 38 $1,255
Celecoxib Generic 16 $836
Oxycodone Hcl Generic 46 $760
Tramadol Hcl Generic 46 $371
Ibuprofen Generic 22 $315
Diazepam Generic 192 $301
Tizanidine Hcl Generic 43 $294

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 13 counted.

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 · 21 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$80,846

Of which drugs: $1,006

Medicare patients

138

Average age 75

Services billed

2,208

76 women, 62 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
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 75%
Ischemic heart disease 38%
Diabetes 30%
Depression 29%
Osteoporosis 21%
Atrial fibrillation 20%
Chronic kidney disease 20%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 Office 74 1,293 $997
Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg J1100 Office 13 104 $9

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

77 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

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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 2024

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

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