Erwin Mangubat, MD
Neurological Surgery · Columbia, SCNPI 1285890046
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (40.8%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 31 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 26.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $13,257, 8.5 times the $1,552 reported in 2019.
Across 307 payments — averaging $93.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$8K
- Medtronic$7K
- Stryker$3K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- Imperative Care, Inc$1K
- plus $6K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,70020%
- Speaking & faculty fees$170%
- Travel & lodging$11,22439%
- Food & beverage$11,71841%
- Education$310%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 17 | $7,677 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 123 | $7,351 |
| Stryker | 44 | $2,622 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 4 | $1,989 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 5 | $1,787 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 22 | $1,450 |
| Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $1,277 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 36 | $976 |
| Spineology Inc. | 2 | $967 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 6 | $575 |
| Abbott | 9 | $527 |
| Insightec,inc | 4 | $394 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $224 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $168 |
| Balt USA, LLC | 2 | $121 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $81 |
| 7d Surgical Inc. | 1 | $64 |
| Route 92 Medical, Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $43 |
| Qapel Medical Inc | 1 | $37 |
| Novocure Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Omniscient Neurotechnology America Ltd | 1 | $35 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $31 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $31 |
| Viz.ai, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $21 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Irras USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Si-bone, 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.
- SPOTLIGHT$6,000
- Spine$1,828
- Other - Miscellaneous$1,565
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,490
- CEREPAK UNIFORM$1,339
- OptiMesh Interbody Fusion System$967
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$945
- ACTIVA$815
- ZOOM 88-T LARGE DISTAL PLATFORM$742
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$683
- Exablate$287
- MIDAS REX$176
- SURPASS EVOLVE$152
- Smart Coil$133
- Embotrap$131
- VNS THERAPY SENTIVA MODEL 1000 GENERATOR$131
- Infinity DBS Pulse Generators$129
- Rist-7F$119
- EMBOTRAP II Revascularization Device$112
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$107
How this compares
$28,690 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 114 neurological surgery providers in South Carolina.
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.
Other neurological surgery in Columbia
- William RamboColumbia$29K
- Nathan DavisColumbia$11K
- Seth MolloyColumbia$7K
- Karl LozanneColumbia$7K
- Ahmad BaderColumbia$6K
- Bertram RichterColumbia$5K
- Roham MoftakharColumbia$3K
- Taylor GirolamoColumbia$3K
- Alejandro SpiottaCharleston$894K
- David JonesRock Hill$540K
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.