Arnold Schwartz, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Huntington Station, NYNPI 1144223090
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $6,760 of the $11,245 with a category attached, or 60.1%. Next Orthosurgical, Inc accounts for 65.3% of it on its own, with 32 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $9,068 and has fallen 98.2% since, to $159 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.
Across 66 payments — averaging $170.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Next Orthosurgical, Inc$7K
- Stryker$2K
- Biedermann Motech, Inc.$465
- Si-bone, Inc.$180
- Spineology Inc.$94
- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$85
- plus $994 from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,00027%
- Travel & lodging$6,76060%
- Food & beverage$1,48413%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Next Orthosurgical, Inc | 2 | $7,343 |
| Stryker | 10 | $2,084 |
| Biedermann Motech, Inc. | 6 | $465 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $180 |
| Spineology Inc. | 3 | $94 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $85 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $73 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 2 | $68 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $62 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 4 | $57 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $54 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Abbott | 2 | $49 |
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $47 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $47 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $45 |
| Vertex | 1 | $30 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $24 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $24 |
| Amgen | 1 | $24 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $22 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Elevation Spine, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $14 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
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.
How this compares
$11,245 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 161 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New York.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 11 | $11,703 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 147 | $5,283 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 154 | $1,349 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 46 | $1,298 |
| Pregabalin | 36 | $1,284 |
| Celecoxib | 81 | $1,174 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 58 | $950 |
| Gabapentin | 98 | $853 |
| Meloxicam | 252 | $836 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 26 | $604 |
| Oxaprozin | 15 | $474 |
| Methylprednisolone | 45 | $382 |
| Omeprazole | 31 | $112 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Huntington Station
- 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
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.