Alan Waitze, MD
Neurological Surgery · Waterbury, CTNPI 1164480323
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (47.8%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 44.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $41,952 and has fallen 99.5% since, to $218 in 2025.
Across 270 payments — averaging $248.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$30K
- Integrity Implants Inc.$29K
- Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus$3K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Cerapedics Inc.$1K
- Ulrich Medical USA, Inc.$363
- plus $1K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$32,06348%
- Consulting fees$17,95027%
- Travel & lodging$8,01312%
- Food & beverage$8,85213%
- Entertainment$2550%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 175 | $30,144 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 17 | $29,231 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus | 6 | $3,282 |
| Globus Medical | 44 | $1,694 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 11 | $1,220 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 3 | $363 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $350 |
| CTL Medical Corporation | 2 | $194 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $103 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $97 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $96 |
| Abbott | 2 | $94 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $79 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $52 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $22 |
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.
- FlareHawk$32,425
- MAKO$10,119
- VLIFT$7,500
- SERRATO$7,500
- NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$3,138
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$1,397
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$825
- ES2 SPINAL SYSTEM$721
- BIO4$608
- XIA$270
- EVEREST$168
- TRITANIUM$168
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$150
- Excelsius Robotics System$142
- GENERAL K2M PRODUCT DISCUSSION$138
- Excelsius3D Imaging System$134
- AIRO$127
- Cervical-Stim Osteogenesis Stimulator$112
- Spinal$110
- iFuse Implant$103
How this compares
$67,132 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 94 neurological surgery providers in Connecticut.
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.
Other neurological surgery in Waterbury
- David ForshawWaterbury$57K
- Michael ObrienWaterbury$3K
- Murat GunelNew Haven$839K
- Sanjay RathiNorth Haven$541K
- Patrick SenatusSouth Windsor$309K
- Ahmed KhanNew Britain$250K
- Abraham MintzShelton$204K
- Joshua MarcusDanbury$142K
- Pooia FattahiMiddlebury$140K
- Pedro de Oliveira CoutinhoNew Haven$129K
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.