Edward Song, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Gilbert, AZNPI 1518947530
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (58.7%), royalties or licence payments and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Nexxt Spine LLC accounts for 73.5% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 78 payments — averaging $1025.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Nexxt Spine LLC$59K
- Spineart USA Inc$13K
- Infront Medical LLC$5K
- Abbott$1K
- Medtronic$602
- Stryker$404
- plus $1K from 15 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $18,750 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Durastat LLC$75K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$23,89430%
- Consulting fees$46,95459%
- Travel & lodging$5,1416%
- Food & beverage$4,0335%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nexxt Spine LLC | 12 | $58,846 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 28 | $12,781 |
| Infront Medical LLC | 2 | $4,896 |
| Abbott | 9 | $1,175 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $602 |
| Stryker | 3 | $404 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $172 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $155 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $116 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $112 |
| X-spine Systems, Inc. | 2 | $111 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $106 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus | 1 | $97 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $75 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $75 |
| Lenoss Medical Inc | 1 | $60 |
| Choice Spine, LLC | 1 | $41 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $37 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $28 |
| Impactortho, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
- SA ALIF System$30,954
- Matrixx Lateral$30,954
- Struxxure A and L$30,954
- Connexx MIS$30,954
- Connexx MIS System$19,827
- Connexx MIS & Open Systems$5,025
- Connexx Systems$2,975
- Juliet LL$1,250
- PROCLAIM$608
- Kerecis SurgiClose$465
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$324
- ARIA$293
- XLIF$172
- AQUAMANTYS$170
- INCEPTIV$164
- OCTRODE$154
- UNID_PASS$137
- Senza$132
- OSTEOCOOL RF ABLATION$118
- Kerecis GraftGuide$116
How this compares
$80,022 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Arizona.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 54 | $340 |
| Methylprednisolone | 19 | $150 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 37 | $140 |
| Pregabalin | 12 | $102 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $100 |
| Cephalexin | 14 | $54 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Gilbert
- Terrence CrowderGilbert$421K
- Caleb BehrendGilbert$76K
- Justin EsterbergGilbert$10K
- Justin FieldPhoenix$2.3M
- John HallFlagstaff$783K
- Nima SalariPhoenix$741K
- Harvinder BediPhoenix$740K
- Michael ChangMesa$692K
- Todd DoerrScottsdale$614K
- Mark WangPhoenix$573K
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.