Daniel Choi, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Ronkonkoma, NYNPI 1225337595
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $94,542 of the $119,325 with a category attached, or 79.2%. Medtronic accounts for 89.3% of it on its own, with 33 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $44,383 and has fallen 91.6% since, to $3,712 in 2025.
Across 367 payments — averaging $325.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$107K
- Globus Medical$3K
- Stryker$2K
- Centinel Spine, LLC$1K
- Abbott$1K
- DJO, LLC$811
- plus $5K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,2001%
- Speaking & faculty fees$94,54279%
- Travel & lodging$8,4847%
- Food & beverage$14,72112%
- Education$3780%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 181 | $106,580 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 29 | $2,588 |
| Stryker | 7 | $1,791 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 7 | $1,422 |
| Abbott | 29 | $1,310 |
| DJO, LLC | 18 | $811 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 3 | $718 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 8 | $646 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 17 | $523 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 27 | $495 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 5 | $490 |
| Polaris Technology Solutions LLC | 2 | $391 |
| Amplify Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $274 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $179 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 2 | $154 |
| 4web, Inc. | 2 | $144 |
| Spinefrontier, Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 1 | $82 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 2 | $72 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $49 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $40 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $36 |
| Royal Biologics, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $16 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $16 |
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.
- CD HORIZON$34,469
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$3,224
- O-ARM$2,200
- PRODISC L$1,203
- PRESTIGE LP CERVICAL DISC SYSTEM$1,200
- TLIF$1,080
- Excelsius - GPS$518
- XLIF$508
- Pulse$508
- SERRATO$351
- ZEVO ANTERIOR CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$348
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$341
- TRITANIUM$331
- iFuse Implant$270
- CMF$265
- PROCLAIM$259
- SPACE-D SYSTEM 5.5/6.0 VOYAGER INSTRUMENT SET$235
- Catalyft$183
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$173
- Proclaim IPG$167
How this compares
$119,325 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 161 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New York.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 17 | $173 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 21 | $66 |
| Meloxicam | 24 | $57 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Ronkonkoma
- Hansen YuanSyracuse$31.7M
- Frank SchwabNew York$5.1M
- Han KimNew York$3.9M
- Todd AlbertNew York$2.7M
- Jeffrey SpivakNew York$1.3M
- Aaron BucklandNew York$1M
- Seth NeubardtWhite Plains$902K
- Sheeraz QureshiNew York$828K
- Jeffrey GoldsteinNew York$765K
- Fabien BitanNew York$624K
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.