Charla Fischer, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · New York, NYNPI 1417115767
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (59.7%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 27.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $61,432 and has fallen 95.7% since, to $2,649 in 2025.
Across 173 payments — averaging $595.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$29K
- Zimmer Biomet$28K
- Globus Medical$21K
- Amplify Surgical, Inc.$7K
- Life Spine, Inc.$6K
- Medtronic$3K
- plus $9K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$61,50060%
- Speaking & faculty fees$13,85013%
- Travel & lodging$19,17519%
- Food & beverage$8,4748%
- Entertainment$290%
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 | 21 | $28,727 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 40 | $28,496 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 54 | $21,196 |
| Amplify Surgical, Inc. | 12 | $6,612 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 11 | $5,995 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 15 | $3,355 |
| Innovasis Inc | 2 | $3,220 |
| Altus Partners. LLC | 2 | $2,889 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 7 | $1,402 |
| Suvon Surgical LLC | 2 | $371 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 2 | $341 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $151 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $140 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $107 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $24 |
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.
- Mobi-C$20,048
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$15,600
- OASYS$15,600
- XIA 3$15,600
- Timberline$12,300
- TrellOss$11,400
- ELSA$7,935
- CAPRI$7,225
- EVEREST XT$7,225
- Cypher Mis Screw System$6,300
- Vital$6,000
- XLIF$5,886
- LATERAL ACCESS SPINAL SYSTEM$5,525
- Vital Deformity$5,400
- Vital MIS$5,400
- ProLift Expandable TLIF$5,400
- ProLift Infinity$5,368
- SERRATO$4,704
- ES2$4,675
- Precision TLIF$4,250
How this compares
$103,027 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tizanidine Hcl | 19 | $254 |
| Meloxicam | 11 | $99 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in New York
- Frank SchwabNew York$5.1M
- Han KimNew York$3.9M
- Todd AlbertNew York$2.7M
- Jeffrey SpivakNew York$1.3M
- Aaron BucklandNew York$1M
- Sheeraz QureshiNew York$828K
- Jeffrey GoldsteinNew York$765K
- Fabien BitanNew York$624K
- Oheneba Boachie-AdjeiNew York$313K
- Harvinder SandhuNew York$266K
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.