Eric Belin, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Grafton, WINPI 1093859548
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $27,400 of the $41,445 with a category attached, or 66.1%. Corelink, LLC accounts for 63.9% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $32,787 and has fallen 78.6% since, to $7,000 in 2024.
Across 100 payments — averaging $414.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Corelink, LLC$27K
- Xtant Medical Inc$7K
- Globus Medical$4K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$1K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$678
- plus $1K from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$27,40066%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,09312%
- Travel & lodging$5,41313%
- Food & beverage$3,5399%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Corelink, LLC | 15 | $26,500 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 1 | $7,000 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 50 | $4,093 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 7 | $1,052 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $1,000 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $678 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 13 | $663 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $194 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 2 | $129 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $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.
- XLIF$1,241
- ALIF$1,215
- Meridian$1,000
- Pulse$873
- CREO$660
- EXPEDIUM$555
- MULTIPLE$481
- Other - Miscellaneous$378
- MAGNIFY$250
- SIMMETRY IMPLANT, 12.5MM X 50MM$194
- Vanta$182
- VECTRIS$142
- Superion ISS$111
How this compares
Too few orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Wisconsinto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tizanidine Hcl | 20 | $106 |
| Gabapentin | 13 | $101 |
| Meloxicam | 16 | $53 |
| Prednisone | 28 | $51 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Grafton
- David de WittAppleton$8.9M
- Seth WilliamsMadison$950K
- Clay FrankKenosha$652K
- Jason SansoneMadison$262K
- Michael DidinskyKenosha$157K
- Jason PotockiStevens Point$3K
- Todd FairchildStevens Point$2K
- Mustafa KhanMilwaukee$364
- Lawrence MaciolekGlendale$86
- Branko PrpaMt Pleasant$74
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.