Addisu Mesfin, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Rochester, NYNPI 1154468833
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (59.6%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 15 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.8%. 2025 is the largest year on record at $16,330, 9.7 times the $1,682 reported in 2019.
Across 137 payments — averaging $391.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GS Solutions, Inc.$12K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$11K
- Stryker$11K
- Medtronic$7K
- Globus Medical$7K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$4K
- plus $2K from 9 others
Across 33 payments — averaging $3477.73 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Globus Medical$74K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$41K
Across 4 payments — averaging $12,500 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Axiomed LLC$50K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$31,97060%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,5757%
- Travel & lodging$10,54820%
- Food & beverage$7,53914%
General payments by program year
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| GS Solutions, Inc. | 5 | $11,684 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 10 | $10,791 |
| Stryker | 15 | $10,579 |
| Medtronic | 28 | $7,401 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 41 | $7,230 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 14 | $3,973 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $623 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 5 | $476 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 4 | $286 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $222 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 1 | $86 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 1 | $73 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 2 | $61 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 1 | $31 |
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.
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$9,100
- VIPER$7,142
- Other - Miscellaneous$3,756
- ALIF$2,100
- Excelsius - GPS$1,245
- VersaTie$1,009
- XLIF$916
- INFUSE BONE GRAFT$854
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$794
- EXPEDIUM$768
- RISE$736
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$650
- Pulse$520
- SYMPHONY$356
- NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$296
- GENERAL K2M PRODUCT DISCUSSION$249
- iFuse Implant$246
- TRITANIUM$179
- icotec Medical BlackArmor Spine Oncology System$177
- X-CORE$169
How this compares
$53,632 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 161 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New York.
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Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 145 | $1,377 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 79 | $1,290 |
| Pregabalin | 56 | $1,222 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 16 | $656 |
| Meloxicam | 137 | $409 |
| Methocarbamol | 17 | $375 |
| Methylprednisolone | 22 | $206 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 24 | $163 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 25 | $151 |
| Ibuprofen | 14 | $143 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Rochester
- Hansen YuanSyracuse$31.7M
- Frank SchwabNew York$5.1M
- Han KimNew York$3.9M
- Todd AlbertNew York$2.7M
- Jeffrey SpivakNew York$1.3M
- Aaron BucklandNew York$1M
- Seth NeubardtWhite Plains$902K
- Sheeraz QureshiNew York$828K
- Jeffrey GoldsteinNew York$765K
- Fabien BitanNew York$624K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.