Branko Skovrlj
Neurological Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1649414954
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $8,229 of the $11,961 with a category attached, or 68.8%. Stryker accounts for 60.5% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $4,811 and has fallen 86.5% since, to $650 in 2025.
Across 116 payments — averaging $103.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$7K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$1K
- Nevro Corp.$763
- Medtronic$481
- Zimmer Biomet$183
- plus $694 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,0959%
- Food & beverage$8,22969%
- Education$2,63722%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 42 | $7,237 |
| Globus Medical | 23 | $1,562 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 16 | $1,040 |
| Nevro Corp. | 9 | $763 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $481 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $183 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 5 | $172 |
| Abbott | 1 | $131 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $91 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $86 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $67 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $37 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- TRITANIUM$2,190
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$2,059
- AVIATOR$1,298
- Invictus MIS$392
- ACP$337
- XLIF$324
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$303
- Omnia$244
- OASYS$174
- SERRATO$163
- ANATOMIC PEEK PTC CERVICAL FUSION SYSTEM$162
- BIO4$156
- Other - Miscellaneous$151
- XIA 3$139
- Biomet SpinalPak$136
- NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$133
- Proclaim IPG$131
- SPACE-D SYSTEM 5.5/6.0 VOYAGER INSTRUMENT SET$130
- AttraX$114
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$109
How this compares
$11,961 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 446 neurological surgery providers in New York.
Other neurological surgery in New York
- J MoccoNew York$1.6M
- Alejandro BerensteinNew York$1.1M
- Darryl LauNew York$915K
- Mark BilskyNew York$903K
- Jan-Karl BurkhardtNew York$441K
- Dean ChouNew York$383K
- Reade DeleacyNew York$329K
- Johanna FifiNew York$326K
- David LangerNew York$258K
- Ali BaajNew York$240K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.