Erik Curtis
Neurological Surgery · Phoenix, AZNPI 1043577901
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 88 payments — averaging $47.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Nexxt Spine LLC$1K
- Stryker$816
- Medtronic$266
- Johnson & Johnson$214
- Globus Medical$188
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$165
- plus $1K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,36933%
- Food & beverage$2,79267%
- Education$150%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 1 | $1,369 |
| Stryker | 19 | $816 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 8 | $266 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 9 | $214 |
| Globus Medical | 5 | $188 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 6 | $165 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 1 | $159 |
| Abbott | 2 | $133 |
| Nevro Corp. | 5 | $98 |
| Spineology Inc. | 2 | $70 |
| Carbofix Spine Inc | 1 | $63 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $54 |
| Agiliti Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 5 | $45 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Natus Medical Incorporated | 1 | $40 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Terumo BCT, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Theragen, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $18 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Ossdsign USA Incorporated | 1 | $15 |
| Osteomed LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Struxxure MCS$1,369
- AXSOS$435
- Perla TL$159
- INCEPTIV$145
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$118
How this compares
$4,176 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 173 neurological surgery providers in Arizona.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 11 | $82 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Phoenix
- Nader SanaiPhoenix$142.7M
- Robert SpetzlerPhoenix$13.2M
- Juan UribePhoenix$6.9M
- Stephen PapadopoulosPhoenix$6M
- Volker SonntagPhoenix$2M
- Jay TurnerPhoenix$1.4M
- Michael LawtonPhoenix$876K
- Francisco PoncePhoenix$485K
- Bryan LeePhoenix$454K
- Randall PorterPhoenix$410K
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.