Allan Heller, MD
Neurological Surgery · Spokane, WANPI 1114196466
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $104,514 of the $132,117 with a category attached, or 79.1%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Orthofix Medical, Inc. at 54.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $51,697 and has fallen 99.6% since, to $187 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in WA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 62 payments — averaging $2130.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$72K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$57K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$1K
- Centinel Spine, LLC$1K
- Innovasis Inc$190
- Spineart USA Inc$160
- plus $126 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$104,51479%
- Consulting fees$25,00019%
- Travel & lodging$1,8441%
- Food & beverage$7601%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 15 | $72,224 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 35 | $57,278 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 3 | $1,139 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $1,000 |
| Innovasis Inc | 3 | $190 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 2 | $160 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $69 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $31 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $27 |
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.
- WaveForm C$45,430
- Mariner Midline$23,765
- Mariner Cortical$21,569
- Mariner$13,117
- Mariner MCT$4,379
- NanoMetalene Technology$1,500
- Shoreline$1,500
- Other - Miscellaneous$1,114
- STALIF M FLX$1,000
- STALIF L FLX$1,000
- Regatta$241
- Scarlet AL-T$106
How this compares
$132,117 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 175 neurological surgery providers in Washington.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 24 | $412 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 35 | $379 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Spokane
- Jonathan CarlsonSpokane$20K
- Nathaniel WhitneySpokane$14K
- Rod OskouianSeattle$2.4M
- Christoph HofstetterSeattle$768K
- David YamBrush Prairie$471K
- Stephen MonteithSeattle$151K
- Jean-Christophe LevequeSeattle$120K
- Vijay YanamadalaSeattle$85K
- Hoan Vu TranSeattle$78K
- Martin RutkowskiSeattle$62K
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.