Has Elias Elias received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $35,320 in general payments to Elias Elias across 147 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Elias Elias did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Elias Elias come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Elias Elias

Neurological Surgery · Seattle, WANPI 1942819404

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (55.2%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Spineart USA Inc at 46.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $15,570 and has fallen 91.6% since, to $1,308 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in WA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$35,320in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 147 payments — averaging $240.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Spineart USA Inc$16K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$7K
Globus Medical$4K
Medtronic$3K
Johnson & Johnson$2K
Carlsmed, Inc.$1K
plus $2K from 7 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$8,55024%
Travel & lodging$19,50355%
Food & beverage$7,26721%

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
Spineart USA Inc	22	$16,370
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	23	$6,713
Globus Medical	22	$4,395
Medtronic	26	$3,273
Johnson & Johnson	32	$1,584
Carlsmed, Inc.	4	$1,146
Icotec Medical Inc.	7	$621
Stryker	5	$541
Synthes GmbH	1	$541
Spineart SA	1	$49
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	2	$36
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$29
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$23

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

$35,320 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 175 neurological surgery providers in Washington.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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