Has Eric Roger, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $149,514 in general payments to Eric Roger, MD across 105 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 Eric Roger, MD 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 Eric Roger, MD 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.

Eric Roger, MD

Neurological Surgery · Amherst, NYNPI 1477561280

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $143,716 of the $149,514 with a category attached, or 96.1%. Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. accounts for 82.5% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $37,982 and has fallen 88.2% since, to $4,476 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in NY 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.

$149,514in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 105 payments — averaging $1423.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$123K
Globus Medical$18K
Xtant Medical Inc$3K
Clariance SAS$3K
Abbott$1K
Clariance, Inc.$823
plus $1K from 7 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$143,71696%
Consulting fees$2,5002%
Speaking & faculty fees$5000%
Food & beverage$2,7982%

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
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	16	$123,372
Globus Medical	25	$17,562
Xtant Medical Inc	2	$2,793
Clariance SAS	3	$2,500
Abbott	26	$1,047
Clariance, Inc.	6	$823
Boston Scientific	11	$447
Nevro Corp.	6	$422
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	2	$240
Medtronic	4	$118
Life Spine, Inc.	1	$84
Solventum Corporation	2	$80
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$27

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.

FORTILINK-C IBF SYSTEM$123,372
AERIAL$17,551
Elegance$2,500
Aggeris-C$500
PENTA$476
Senza$372
PROCLAIM$260
WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$250
Evoke$240
Idys-ALIF$106

How this compares

$149,514 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 446 neurological surgery providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$35,993

Medicare patients

Services billed

109

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	14	$159

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Adnan SiddiquiWilliamsville$1.5M
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Aziz Basem QandahNew Hartford$1.1M
Alejandro BerensteinNew York$1.1M
Darryl LauNew York$915K
Mark BilskyNew York$903K
John PollinaWilliamsville$661K
Michael GroffRochester$559K

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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.

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