David Yam
Neurological Surgery · Brush Prairie, WANPI 1649495896
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (41.7%), royalties or licence payments and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Globus Medical accounts for 79.4% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $185,027 and has fallen 75.3% since, to $45,666 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in WA 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.
Across 532 payments — averaging $885.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$374K
- Medtronic$72K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$17K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$4K
- Viseon, Inc.$1K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$785
- plus $2K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$138,06629%
- Consulting fees$196,16342%
- Speaking & faculty fees$64,31314%
- Travel & lodging$62,96213%
- Food & beverage$9,3152%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 353 | $373,666 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 95 | $71,913 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 33 | $16,693 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 23 | $4,295 |
| Viseon, Inc. | 4 | $1,438 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 8 | $785 |
| MML US, Inc. | 4 | $700 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $500 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 2 | $234 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 2 | $159 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $126 |
| Wenzel Spine, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $48 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $32 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $29 |
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.
- XLIF$256,365
- CLYDESDALE PTC SPINAL SYSTEM$42,808
- TLIF$26,524
- CLYDESDALE$17,646
- Excelsius - GPS$16,262
- NTS$12,898
- Excavation$9,594
- Shoreline ASC$9,100
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$7,170
- NuVasive$7,082
- Pulse$5,474
- MaXcess$4,500
- NorthStar$3,648
- ALIF$3,067
- CREO$3,000
- Other - Miscellaneous$2,489
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$1,686
- M6-C Artificial Cervical Disc$1,387
- MaxView System$1,348
- PHOENIX Minimally Invasive Spinal Fixation System$1,292
How this compares
$470,817 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 175 neurological surgery providers in Washington.
Other neurological surgery in Brush Prairie
- Rod OskouianSeattle$2.4M
- Christoph HofstetterSeattle$768K
- Stephen MonteithSeattle$151K
- Allan HellerSpokane$132K
- Jean-Christophe LevequeSeattle$120K
- Vijay YanamadalaSeattle$85K
- Hoan Vu TranSeattle$78K
- Martin RutkowskiSeattle$62K
- Debra SteeleRichland$61K
- Ramana GorrepatiBellingham$60K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.