Burt Yaszay
Orthopaedic Surgery · Seattle, WANPI 1770798647
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,052,287 of the $1,341,244 with a category attached, or 78.5%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 50.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $354,355 and has fallen 62.0% since, to $134,805 in 2025. Among orthopaedic 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 460 payments — averaging $2915.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$682K
- Stryker$459K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$51K
- Orthopediatrics Corp.$41K
- VB Spine LLC$39K
- Biogen$38K
- plus $31K from 9 others
Across 10 payments — averaging $14,908 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$142K
- Medtronic$7K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,052,28778%
- Consulting fees$251,49219%
- Speaking & faculty fees$9,7621%
- Travel & lodging$17,0281%
- Food & beverage$10,6761%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 93 | $681,722 |
| Stryker | 170 | $459,139 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 35 | $50,971 |
| Orthopediatrics Corp. | 22 | $41,461 |
| VB Spine LLC | 13 | $39,152 |
| Biogen | 24 | $37,792 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 7 | $26,889 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 30 | $1,339 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 56 | $1,067 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $700 |
| Biedermann Motech, Inc. | 4 | $680 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 2 | $191 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| EBI, LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 1 | $8 |
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.
- RELINE$436,009
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$261,177
- EVEREST$145,375
- REFLECT$110,266
- ExcelsiusGPS$48,960
- EXPEDIUM$47,839
- MESA SPINAL SYSTEM$47,780
- REFLECT/REFLECT HDE$43,385
- SPINRAZA$34,709
- EXPAREL$26,880
- MAGEC$20,463
- Orthopediatric Implants$11,037
- N/A$8,625
- MESA$8,000
- Iovera$7,680
- NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$5,875
- Vulcan Spinal System$5,782
- NILE ALTERNATIVE FIXATION SYSTEM$5,012
- VLIFT$4,500
- XLIF$4,000
How this compares
$1,341,244 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 495 orthopaedic surgery providers in Washington.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Seattle
- James PritchettSeattle$6.4M
- James CrutcherSeattle$3.5M
- Keith MayoSeattle$3.1M
- Matthew SaltzmanSeattle$1.8M
- Sean ToomeySeattle$1.2M
- Robert HartSeattle$942K
- Jeffrey RohSeattle$604K
- Michael BrageSeattle$496K
- Daniel SchwartzSeattle$424K
- Grant GarciaSeattle$367K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.