Bertram Richter, MD
Neurological Surgery · Columbia, SCNPI 1174965651
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,793 of the $4,658 with a category attached, or 81.4%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 56.2% of the total.
Across 74 payments — averaging $62.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Globus Medical$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$241
- Centinel Spine, LLC$206
- Abbott$195
- Misonix Inc$91
- plus $231 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$86519%
- Food & beverage$3,79381%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 45 | $2,620 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 10 | $1,075 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $241 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $206 |
| Abbott | 3 | $195 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $91 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Stryker | 1 | $46 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $39 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Spine$807
- MIDAS REX$615
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$518
- PRODISC C VIVO$206
- O-ARM$180
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$165
- VISUALASE$127
- O-ARM-Spine$110
How this compares
$4,658 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 114 neurological surgery providers in South Carolina.
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 neurological surgery in Columbia
- William RamboColumbia$29K
- Erwin MangubatColumbia$29K
- Nathan DavisColumbia$11K
- Seth MolloyColumbia$7K
- Karl LozanneColumbia$7K
- Ahmad BaderColumbia$6K
- Roham MoftakharColumbia$3K
- Taylor GirolamoColumbia$3K
- Alejandro SpiottaCharleston$894K
- David JonesRock Hill$540K
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.