Christopher Catapano, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Las Vegas, NVNPI 1669732996
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (55.3%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Goode Surgical Inc at 34.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,850 and has fallen 81.5% since, to $527 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in NV, where the typical reported total is $14,410.
Across 89 payments — averaging $77.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Goode Surgical Inc$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$707
- Xtant Medical Inc$332
- Si-bone, Inc.$316
- Forte Bio-pharma LLC$307
- plus $1K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$70710%
- Food & beverage$3,80555%
- Education$2,36634%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Goode Surgical Inc | 4 | $2,335 |
| Stryker | 20 | $1,501 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $707 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 3 | $332 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 7 | $316 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 10 | $307 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 11 | $234 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $207 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $158 |
| Royal Biologics, Inc. | 1 | $142 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $126 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $90 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $78 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Protega Pharmaceutials Inc | 2 | $43 |
| Merck | 2 | $33 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $18 |
| Abbott | 1 | $14 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $13 |
| Expanding Innovations, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
How this compares
$6,879 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 30 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Nevada.
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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 | 11 | $40 |
| Meloxicam | 27 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Las Vegas
- Kornelis PoelstraLas Vegas$2.2M
- George ElkanichLas Vegas$322K
- John ThalgottLas Vegas$320K
- Mark KabinsLas Vegas$118K
- Hugh BassewitzLas Vegas$54K
- Daniel LeeLas Vegas$52K
- Chinedu NwasikeLas Vegas$42K
- Kevin DebiparshadLas Vegas$37K
- Andrew LeeLas Vegas$31K
- Edward AndersonLas Vegas$14K
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.