Christoph Hofstetter
Neurological Surgery · Seattle, WANPI 1043464365
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 417 payments — averaging $1915.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Joimax, Inc.$475K
- Globus Medical$97K
- Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$43K
- Innovasis Inc$40K
- Spineology Inc.$34K
- GE HealthCare$33K
- plus $78K from 16 others
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Joimax, Inc. | 24 | $474,701 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 122 | $97,273 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 65 | $43,117 |
| Innovasis Inc | 21 | $39,508 |
| Spineology Inc. | 27 | $33,881 |
| GE HealthCare | 7 | $32,660 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 23 | $31,083 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 40 | $16,124 |
| Synthes GmbH | 13 | $10,861 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $5,887 |
| BK Medical Holding Company Inc. | 2 | $5,585 |
| Arthrex | 19 | $2,512 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 5 | $2,285 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 37 | $1,736 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 3 | $742 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $216 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus | 1 | $210 |
| Stryker | 2 | $202 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 1 | $76 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $48 |
| Abbott | 1 | $44 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
How this compares
$798,785 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 175 neurological surgery providers in Washington.
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 Seattle
- Rod OskouianSeattle$2.5M
- Stephen MonteithSeattle$425K
- Michael LevittSeattle$268K
- Jean-Christophe LevequeSeattle$244K
- Melanie WalkerSeattle$159K
- Ryder GwinnSeattle$132K
- Farrokh FarrokhiSeattle$91K
- Vijay YanamadalaSeattle$85K
- Hoan Vu TranSeattle$78K
- Martin RutkowskiSeattle$62K
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.