Daniel Birk, MD
Neurological Surgery · Commack, NYNPI 1578880274
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (56.0%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 71.0% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $7,921 and has fallen 89.5% since, to $835 in 2025.
Across 184 payments — averaging $101.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$13K
- Johnson & Johnson$3K
- Globus Medical$831
- Boston Scientific$322
- DJO, LLC$281
- Medtronic$277
- plus $814 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,42556%
- Travel & lodging$2,37013%
- Food & beverage$5,81431%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 22 | $13,219 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 132 | $2,866 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 10 | $831 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $322 |
| DJO, LLC | 3 | $281 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $277 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $222 |
| 4web, Inc. | 2 | $201 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $175 |
| Spineology Inc. | 3 | $83 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $65 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Abbott | 1 | $23 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $19 |
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.
- VIPER$12,825
- CONCORDE$652
- EXPEDIUM$652
- XLIF$287
- INTELLIS$277
- CMF SPINALOGIC$253
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$163
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$160
- RELINE$146
- CONFIDENCE SPINAL CEMENT SYSTEM$108
- SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$107
- BRAINLAB$105
How this compares
$18,609 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 446 neurological surgery providers in New York.
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 | 32 | $408 |
| Methocarbamol | 14 | $142 |
| Gabapentin | 17 | $115 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 18 | $82 |
| Methylprednisolone | 11 | $60 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Commack
- Ryan DenhaeseWilliamsville$1.9M
- J MoccoNew York$1.6M
- Adnan SiddiquiWilliamsville$1.5M
- Leo HopkinsBuffalo$1.2M
- Aziz Basem QandahNew Hartford$1.1M
- Alejandro BerensteinNew York$1.1M
- Darryl LauNew York$915K
- Mark BilskyNew York$903K
- John PollinaWilliamsville$661K
- Michael GroffRochester$559K
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.