Charles Sansur, MD
Neurological Surgery · Baltimore, MDNPI 1568679652
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,676,743 of the $1,784,745 with a category attached, or 93.9%. Stryker accounts for 88.9% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $411,631 and has fallen 90.4% since, to $39,519 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in MD 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 275 payments — averaging $6489.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$1.6M
- Globus Medical$146K
- Medtronic$30K
- Si-bone, Inc.$19K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$767
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$742
- plus $2K from 9 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $2008.99 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.
- Pfizer$10K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,676,74394%
- Consulting fees$77,4684%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,1100%
- Travel & lodging$19,4701%
- Food & beverage$9,8551%
- Education$990%
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 | 55 | $1,587,089 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 94 | $146,086 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 49 | $29,553 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 40 | $18,904 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 5 | $767 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 10 | $742 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 8 | $603 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $271 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 3 | $267 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $165 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $85 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 2 | $54 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 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.
- SERRATO$1,584,402
- XLIF$143,145
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$16,777
- ENDOSKELETON TC NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$14,255
- INFINITY OCCIPITOCERVICAL UPPER THORACIC SYSTEM$4,835
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$3,713
- Pulse$2,100
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$1,527
- ANATOMIC PEEK PTC CERVICAL FUSION SYSTEM$1,110
- PRESTIGE LP CERVICAL DISC SYSTEM$1,110
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$800
- T2 STRATOSPHERE EXPANDABLE CORPECTOMY SYSTEM$580
- Other - Miscellaneous$530
- UNID_PASS$498
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$480
- NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$397
- ATLANTIS ANTERIOR CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$370
- FLOSEAL$352
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$334
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$309
How this compares
$1,784,745 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 133 neurological surgery providers in Maryland.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 33 | $289 |
| Gabapentin | 20 | $267 |
| Methylprednisolone | 20 | $114 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 28 | $96 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Baltimore
- Alexander CoonBaltimore$2.7M
- Nicholas TheodoreBaltimore$833K
- Daniel SciubbaBaltimore$789K
- Henry BremBaltimore$353K
- Ira GaronzikBaltimore$297K
- James ConwayBaltimore$273K
- Gustavo PradillaBaltimore$164K
- Timothy WithamBaltimore$141K
- Charles ParkBaltimore$89K
- William AndersonBaltimore$77K
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.