Ali Hazama, MD
Neurological Surgery · Syracuse, NYNPI 1386080158
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (37.5%), consulting fees and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Spineology Inc. accounts for 85.9% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $31,992 and has fallen 52.6% since, to $15,159 in 2025.
Across 130 payments — averaging $638.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spineology Inc.$71K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$3K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
- Synergy Biomedical, LLC$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Medtronic$706
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$27,11833%
- Speaking & faculty fees$16,50020%
- Travel & lodging$31,16138%
- Food & beverage$8,24110%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spineology Inc. | 60 | $71,285 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 9 | $3,233 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 12 | $2,573 |
| Synergy Biomedical, LLC | 1 | $1,875 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 13 | $1,138 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 8 | $706 |
| Globus Medical | 5 | $499 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 2 | $231 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $204 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 2 | $186 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $171 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $149 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $146 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $105 |
| Lenoss Medical Inc | 1 | $101 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $93 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $90 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $78 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $74 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $48 |
| Atlas Spine, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Carbofix Spine Inc | 1 | $17 |
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.
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$70,046
- VIPER$1,569
- CONDUIT$1,130
- DUO TI EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$713
- Teligen$374
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$285
- Excelsius Deformity$257
- SYMPHONY$230
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$195
- CREO$165
- NanoMetalene Technology$150
- Other - Miscellaneous$146
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$133
- ANATOMIC PEEK PTC CERVICAL FUSION SYSTEM$127
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$122
- Optium$105
- Access & Cavity Creation Kit$101
How this compares
$83,019 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 446 neurological surgery providers in New York.
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 | 14 | $110 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Syracuse
- Ryan DenhaeseWilliamsville$1.9M
- J MoccoNew York$1.6M
- Adnan SiddiquiWilliamsville$1.5M
- Leo HopkinsBuffalo$1.2M
- Aziz Basem QandahNew Hartford$1.1M
- Alejandro BerensteinNew York$1.1M
- Darryl LauNew York$915K
- Mark BilskyNew York$903K
- John PollinaWilliamsville$661K
- Michael GroffRochester$559K
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.