Dean Lin, MD
Neurological Surgery · Fort Myers, FLNPI 1760589576
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 87 payments — averaging $856.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Choice Spine, LLC$43K
- Vy Spine LLC$19K
- Medtronic$7K
- Globus Medical$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$593
- Boston Scientific$432
- plus $2K from 27 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $82,650 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.
- Catalyst Spinal Innovations$83K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$61,76983%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,2707%
- Travel & lodging$2,7494%
- Food & beverage$4,7066%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Choice Spine, LLC | 4 | $42,767 |
| Vy Spine LLC | 1 | $19,002 |
| Medtronic | 15 | $6,521 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 15 | $2,962 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 9 | $593 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $432 |
| 7d Surgical Inc. | 1 | $269 |
| Stryker | 5 | $251 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $206 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $188 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 2 | $142 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 1 | $129 |
| Reliance Medical Systems | 1 | $107 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $86 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 1 | $78 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $73 |
| DJO, LLC | 3 | $70 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $62 |
| Innovasis Inc | 1 | $59 |
| Merck | 3 | $51 |
| EBI, LLC | 1 | $48 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Alevio, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Microtransponder, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $11 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $10 |
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.
- Ambassador$42,767
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$5,270
- Excelsius - GPS$1,251
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$1,025
- CLYDESDALE PTC SPINAL SYSTEM$628
- XLIF$353
- Teligen$249
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$188
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$161
- mild Device Kit$144
- Intracept$143
- CONDUIT$130
- T2 ALPHA$129
- AXSOS$129
- GAMMA$129
- FIBERGRAFT BG Morsels$115
- PRONE LATERAL$112
- aprevo$106
- ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$105
How this compares
$74,494 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 556 neurological surgery providers in Florida.
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.
Other neurological surgery in Fort Myers
- Jeffrey HennFort Myers$237K
- Stephen ParkerJacksonville$18.7M
- Ira GoodmanOrlando$10.4M
- Eric PetersonMiami$10.1M
- Brian SnellingBoca Raton$10M
- Kim ManwaringOrlando$5M
- Ricardo HanelJacksonville$3.8M
- Brian HohGainesville$3.7M
- Paul SawinWinter Park$3M
- John MainOcala$2.8M
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.