Alexander Yu, MD
Neurological Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1457612038
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,533 of the $10,742 with a category attached, or 70.1%. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 29.7% of the total.
Across 142 payments — averaging $75.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education$1K
- Stryker$1K
- Aesculap, Inc.$1K
- Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$706
- Retropsoas Technologies, LLC$380
- plus $3K from 18 others
Across 62 payments — averaging $2462.44 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.
- Cerapedics Inc.$131K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$22K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,40013%
- Travel & lodging$1,78917%
- Food & beverage$7,53370%
- Education$200%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 56 | $3,188 |
| The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education | 1 | $1,400 |
| Stryker | 18 | $1,222 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 30 | $1,087 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 6 | $706 |
| Retropsoas Technologies, LLC | 2 | $380 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $366 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 2 | $281 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $275 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 1 | $272 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $265 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $229 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $174 |
| Abbott | 1 | $165 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $137 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $115 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $91 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $81 |
| Prosidyan, Inc | 1 | $60 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| GT Medical Technologies, Inc | 1 | $32 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $20 |
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.
- Enza$1,400
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$1,308
- PROGAV 2.0$425
- SERRATO$239
- Spine$212
- O-ARM$186
- KINEVO$183
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$177
- SPINEMAP$165
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$165
- Focus$165
- EARP Interbody System$165
- EARP Nerve Cuff Electrode$165
- Persona$145
- WEB$144
- CRANIALMASK TRACKER$140
- PICO$137
- MOJAVE$131
- Mobi-C$130
- FLOSEAL$128
How this compares
$10,742 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 390 neurological surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 | 36 | $548 |
| Methocarbamol | 24 | $280 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Pittsburgh
- Adam KanterPittsburgh$2.6M
- David OkonkwoPittsburgh$2.3M
- Constantinos HadjipanayisPittsburgh$484K
- Bradley GrossPittsburgh$135K
- Jody LeonardoPittsburgh$116K
- Dorian KusykPittsburgh$77K
- David HamiltonPittsburgh$66K
- Jorge Gonzalez-MartinezPittsburgh$65K
- Alejandro CastellviPittsburgh$61K
- Ivo PetoePittsburgh$56K
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.