Dustin Massel, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Skokie, ILNPI 1144751249
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (38.9%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Augmedics Inc. at 35.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $10,940, more than ten times the $215 reported in 2019.
Across 159 payments — averaging $170.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Augmedics Inc.$10K
- Globus Medical$7K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- Arthrex$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc$1K
- plus $4K from 19 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $3960.00 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.
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$4K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$8,82533%
- Travel & lodging$7,74529%
- Food & beverage$10,55439%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Augmedics Inc. | 11 | $9,521 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 59 | $7,025 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 8 | $1,899 |
| Arthrex | 12 | $1,711 |
| Stryker | 11 | $1,626 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 8 | $1,232 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $767 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $723 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 6 | $585 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 5 | $401 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $301 |
| Innovasis Inc | 1 | $248 |
| Spineology Inc. | 3 | $239 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 1 | $171 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $141 |
| Lifenet Health | 2 | $138 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $121 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $66 |
| Vertex | 2 | $58 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $39 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $29 |
| Theragen, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Xvision$46,411
- XLIF$2,558
- TLIF$1,831
- Excelsius - GPS$1,492
- Other - Miscellaneous$947
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$892
- LIF$402
- T2$327
- CREO$310
- RELINE$301
- EXPEDIUM$279
- Teligen$253
- DIVERGENCE-L ANTERIOR/OBLIQUE LUMBAR FUSION SYSTEM$194
- PCM$180
- MLX$180
- INSTRUMENTS$173
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$172
- ALTERA$170
- COALITION MIS / MIS Ti$170
- TRIATHLON$160
How this compares
$27,124 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Illinois.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 71 | $223 |
| Methylprednisolone | 22 | $173 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Skokie
- Lukas ZebalaSkokie$10K
- Frank PhillipsChicago$3.9M
- Kern SinghChicago$1.3M
- Christopher DewaldChicago$1.2M
- P Ronjon PaulNaperville$908K
- Philip MeinhardtQuincy$507K
- Anis MekhailPalos Heights$498K
- Matthew ColmanChicago$334K
- Mir AliMorris$329K
- Krzysztof SiemionowHomer Glen$290K
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.