Has Alexios Apazidis, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,505 in general payments to Alexios Apazidis, MD across 71 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Alexios Apazidis, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Alexios Apazidis, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Alexios Apazidis, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Saint Albans, NYNPI 1245494368

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,741 of the $6,505 with a category attached, or 72.9%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Life Spine, Inc. at 31.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,849 and has fallen 95.3% since, to $88 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in NY, where the typical reported total is $11,594.

$6,505in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 71 payments — averaging $91.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Life Spine, Inc.$2K
Spinal Elements, Inc.$905
Smith+Nephew$621
Johnson & Johnson$504
DJO, LLC$362
Intrinsic Therapeutics$356
plus $2K from 15 others

$1,200in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $1200.00 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.

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Development America, Inc.$1K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,76427%
Food & beverage$4,74173%

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
Life Spine, Inc.	6	$2,034
Spinal Elements, Inc.	9	$905
Smith+Nephew	6	$621
Johnson & Johnson	9	$504
DJO, LLC	7	$362
Intrinsic Therapeutics	4	$356
Zimmer Biomet	3	$249
Royal Biologics, Inc.	4	$247
Boston Scientific	2	$230
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	2	$201
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	1	$167
Medtronic(2 entities)	3	$158
Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc.	1	$109
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	3	$78
Bioventus LLC	2	$65
ERMI LLC	2	$63
Globus Medical	2	$47
Cerapedics Inc.	2	$29
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	1	$29
Baxter Healthcare	1	$27
Precision Spine, Inc.	1	$24

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.

TruLift Lateral$980
ALIF Buttress$980
Intracept$698
Medical Device$522
ALIF BUTTRESS PLATE$392
Cervical Plage$392
Coblation$264
GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$230
EXPEDIUM$229
KARMA$203
ProLift$180
Avatar$180
Nautilus$180
Gruve$180
Centerline$180
Regeneten$175
OsteoStrand Plus$167
MaxxCell$141
Fibrinet$141
Healicoil$140

How this compares

$6,505 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 161 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$2,544

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	18	$94

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Saint Albans

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

See the full list for New York →

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.

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