Clifford Crutcher, MD
Neurological Surgery · Durham, NCNPI 1437491305
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $7,700 of the $12,770 with a category attached, or 60.3%. Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 66.0% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $6,795 and has fallen 91.3% since, to $591 in 2025.
Across 90 payments — averaging $141.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$8K
- Medtronic$2K
- Globus Medical$1K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$450
- Johnson & Johnson$47
- plus $13 from 1 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $30,396 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.
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$122K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4504%
- Travel & lodging$7,70060%
- Food & beverage$4,62036%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 29 | $8,434 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 30 | $1,652 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 14 | $1,098 |
| Boston Scientific | 13 | $1,076 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $450 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $47 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $13 |
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
$12,770 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 196 neurological surgery providers in North Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 13 | $97 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Durham
- Robert IsaacsDurham$6.6M
- Christopher ShaffreyDurham$4.5M
- Khoi ThanDurham$192K
- Michael HaglundDurham$163K
- Timothy MillerDurham$102K
- Courtney GoodwinDurham$97K
- Erik HauckDurham$94K
- Shivanand LadDurham$91K
- Emad HasanDurham$79K
- Kristen JonesDurham$48K
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.