Christopher McDonald, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Mansfield, MANPI 1083105852
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (48.2%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 36.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $7,484 and has fallen 55.0% since, to $3,369 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in MA, where the typical reported total is $21,142.
Across 154 payments — averaging $136.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$8K
- Spineart USA Inc$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- plus $5K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$8,21039%
- Food & beverage$10,13748%
- Education$2,67613%
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 | 77 | $7,631 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 8 | $2,404 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 10 | $1,879 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 8 | $1,600 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 8 | $1,540 |
| Medtronic | 8 | $1,353 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 15 | $1,152 |
| Synthes GmbH | 2 | $1,151 |
| VB Spine LLC | 5 | $739 |
| Spineart SA | 1 | $510 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 3 | $323 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 4 | $200 |
| CTL Medical Corporation | 1 | $154 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $149 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $97 |
| Novapproach Spine, LLC | 1 | $97 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $43 |
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.
- Perla TL$1,658
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,510
- AERO-LL$1,318
- Shoreline ACS$1,156
- Reef TA$1,156
- CORBEL$960
- Reef TO$735
- Mariner$579
- NorthStar OCT$579
- Mariner MIS$576
- NAVIGATION$510
- Alps Clavicle$419
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$391
- SERRATO$331
- ACTIS$325
- VARIAX$319
- NA$316
- N/A$307
- aprevo$265
- ProLift$248
How this compares
$21,023 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 28 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Massachusetts.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 19 | $80 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Mansfield
- Paul GlazerChestnut Hill$2.1M
- Raymond HwangChestnut Hill$1.1M
- Robert BancoWellesley Hills$661K
- Mitchell HardenbrookHopedale$542K
- Steven LeckiePlymouth$316K
- Jeremy ShorePeabody$232K
- Richard OzunaPeabody$198K
- Nikhil ThakurNorth Andover$118K
- Chadi TannouryBoston$81K
- Bryce BasquesRaynham$72K
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.