Donald Sachs, MD
Neurological Surgery · Lakeland, FLNPI 1609081900
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,241 of the $5,050 with a category attached, or 84.0%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 40.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,707 and has fallen 70.4% since, to $505 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for neurological surgery clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $5,245.
Across 188 payments — averaging $26.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Nevro Corp.$1K
- Stryker$954
- Abbott$313
- Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.$166
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$143
- plus $401 from 12 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $7142.84 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$50K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$81016%
- Food & beverage$4,24184%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 49 | $2,025 |
| Nevro Corp. | 55 | $1,049 |
| Stryker | 44 | $954 |
| Abbott | 16 | $313 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $166 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 5 | $85 |
| Globus Medical | 4 | $77 |
| Corelink, LLC | 1 | $49 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 3 | $44 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $16 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Trackx Technology, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $6 |
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.
How this compares
$5,050 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Pregabalin | 92 | $2,032 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 102 | $747 |
| Baclofen | 15 | $681 |
| Gabapentin | 47 | $422 |
| Celecoxib | 14 | $399 |
| Meloxicam | 50 | $235 |
| Alprazolam | 150 | $99 |
| Methylprednisolone | 12 | $84 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 14 | $44 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Lakeland
- Stephen ParkerJacksonville$18.7M
- Eric PetersonMiami$10.1M
- Brian SnellingBoca Raton$10M
- Kim ManwaringOrlando$5M
- Paul SawinWinter Park$3M
- John MainOcala$2.8M
- Michael WangMiami$2.2M
- Andrew CannestraJacksonville$1.6M
- Rohit VasanTampa$1.5M
- Wilson AsforaMiami$1.3M
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.