Has Darryl Lau, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $915,400 in general payments to Darryl Lau, MD across 483 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Darryl Lau, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Darryl Lau, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Darryl Lau, MD

Neurological Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1801138060

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (59.7%), royalties or licence payments and grants — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alphatec Spine, Inc at 27.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $393,362, more than ten times the $108 reported in 2019. Among neurological surgery clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$915,400in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 483 payments — averaging $1895.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alphatec Spine, Inc$251K
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.$170K
Stryker$136K
Cerapedics Inc.$115K
Hyhte Holdings Inc.$80K
Globus Medical$79K
plus $84K from 10 others

$1,000in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 2 payments — averaging $500.00 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

Viseon, Inc.$1K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$167,32818%
Consulting fees$546,24860%
Speaking & faculty fees$25,3753%
Grants$93,52510%
Travel & lodging$65,3707%
Food & beverage$17,4192%
Education$650%
Entertainment$690%

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	116	$250,689
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	7	$170,020
Stryker	93	$135,951
Cerapedics Inc.	36	$115,404
Hyhte Holdings Inc.	2	$80,249
Globus Medical(2 entities)	105	$78,969
VB Spine LLC	15	$42,585
Medtronic(2 entities)	54	$28,101
Viseon, Inc.	13	$12,393
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	35	$451
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$206
Johnson & Johnson	2	$132
DJO, LLC	1	$113
Highridge Medical LLC	1	$61
EBI, LLC	1	$61
Carbofix Spine Inc	1	$15

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.

Other - Miscellaneous$214,229
I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$120,447
Influx$109,675
Masada$80,249
Solus ALIF$77,400
EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$53,860
CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$42,077
AVIATOR$32,663
SafeOp$24,000
UNID_PASS$23,661
MONTEREY AL$22,100
XLIF$18,862
IdentiTi$15,600
Magellan$15,253
YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$15,135
MaxView System - Lateral Set$12,047
ASCENTIAL ACP 1$10,400
ES2 SPINAL SYSTEM$8,775
CANYON RETRACTOR SYSTEMS$8,450
LTP$8,400

How this compares

$915,400 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 446 neurological surgery providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$355,946

Medicare patients

177

Services billed

689

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.

Other neurological surgery in New York

J MoccoNew York$1.6M
Alejandro BerensteinNew York$1.1M
Mark BilskyNew York$903K
Jan-Karl BurkhardtNew York$441K
Dean ChouNew York$383K
Reade DeleacyNew York$329K
Johanna FifiNew York$326K
David LangerNew York$258K
Ali BaajNew York$240K
Viviane TabarNew York$231K

See the full list for New York →

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.

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