Donald Kucharzyk
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery · Crown Point, INNPI 1164499505
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (59.5%), royalties or licence payments and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Orthofix Medical, Inc. at 38.5% of the total.
Across 241 payments — averaging $1633.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$152K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$132K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$29K
- Life Spine, Inc.$25K
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$22K
- Precision Spine, Inc.$12K
- plus $22K from 9 others
Across 20 payments — averaging $2834.80 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.
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$57K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$132,60134%
- Consulting fees$234,32860%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,0751%
- Travel & lodging$14,3194%
- Food & beverage$6,8972%
- Education$1,2000%
- Gifts$1000%
- Entertainment$1920%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 45 | $151,655 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 63 | $131,977 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 48 | $29,026 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 11 | $24,857 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 10 | $21,898 |
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 11 | $12,398 |
| Nvision Biomedical Technologies, Inc. | 9 | $9,092 |
| Arthrex | 11 | $6,073 |
| Medicrea USA, Corp. | 9 | $2,970 |
| Corelink, LLC | 7 | $2,833 |
| Medwest Associates | 3 | $522 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $229 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $135 |
| Stryker | 2 | $31 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Mariner MIS TLIF Retractor$132,875
- Simmetry$72,258
- SlMMETRY$32,034
- SIMMETRY IMPLANT, 12.5MM X 50MM$22,389
- Trinity ELITE$15,854
- ProLift$15,000
- Trinity Evolution$14,153
- VersaShield$14,153
- Collage Osteoconductive Scaffold$14,153
- AlloQuent Structural Allograft$14,153
- LUNA$14,000
- MIS SLC$12,398
- ASCENT;ASCENT LE;FIREBIRD SFS;ICON SFS;SFS$7,254
- Orios XT$4,684
- Foot/ankle products$4,375
- Medical Device$3,078
- CLARITY RETRACTOR SYSTEM-LATERAL$2,925
- PASS-LP$2,777
- UNiD$2,399
- Spine products$1,875
How this compares
Too few pediatric orthopaedic surgery providers in Indianato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other pediatric orthopaedic surgery in Crown Point
- Matthew AbbottIndianapolis$5K
- Jonathan WilhiteIndianapolis$2K
- Enrico StazzoneIndianapolis$2K
- Kosmas KayesIndianapolis$147
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.