Austen Katz, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Great Neck, NYNPI 1851954044
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 71 payments — averaging $203.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Precision Spine, Inc.$4K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$3K
- Medtronic$2K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$973
- plus $444 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,50024%
- Travel & lodging$8,10756%
- Food & beverage$2,80719%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 1 | $3,500 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 5 | $2,938 |
| Medtronic | 22 | $2,444 |
| Globus Medical | 16 | $2,075 |
| Stryker | 14 | $2,041 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 9 | $973 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 1 | $180 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $147 |
| Carbofix Spine Inc | 1 | $95 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $21 |
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.
- MD Vue Lateral Access System$3,500
- Other - Miscellaneous$2,057
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$1,569
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$1,010
- Invictus MIS$882
- Velys$861
- Simplify Cervical Artificial Disc$804
- XLIF$503
- N/A$318
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$301
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$235
- UNID_PASS$187
- ALTERA$182
- CREO$182
- VADER PEDICLE SYSTEM 6.0, SCREW, Carbon/PEEK, POLYAX., FEN., O 5.5 X 45 MM$180
- VADER PEDICLE SYSTEM, ROD, Carbon/PEEK, CURVED, 6.0 R450 X 200 MM$180
- KONG-TL VBR E, EXPANDABLE BODY, L, 19 MM X 27 - 37 MM$180
- KONG-TL VBR, END PLATE, ROUND, L AND SCREW, 12 X 43 MM$180
- KONG-TL VBR, END PLATE, RECTANGULAR, M AND SCREW, 12 X 33 MM$180
- ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$156
How this compares
$14,414 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th 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.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Great Neck
- Rohit VermaGreat Neck$72K
- Hansen YuanSyracuse$31.7M
- Frank CammisaNew York$6.2M
- Frank SchwabNew York$5.1M
- Han KimNew York$4M
- Todd AlbertNew York$3M
- Jeffrey SpivakNew York$1.3M
- Aaron BucklandNew York$1.2M
- Andrew SamaNy$942K
- Sheeraz QureshiNew York$929K
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.