Fabien Bitan
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · New York, NYNPI 1609816479
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $392,438 of the $624,459 with a category attached, or 62.8%. Precision Spine, Inc. accounts for 89.1% of it on its own, with 35 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine 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.
Across 212 payments — averaging $2945.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Precision Spine, Inc.$556K
- Centinel Spine, LLC$26K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$9K
- 4web, Inc.$7K
- Choice Spine, LLC$6K
- Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.$6K
- plus $14K from 30 others
Across 22 payments — averaging $11,818 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Centinel Spine, LLC$260K
- Woven Orthopedic Technologies, LLC$0
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$392,43863%
- Consulting fees$191,33331%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,9001%
- Travel & lodging$7,3371%
- Food & beverage$17,1843%
- Education$9,1271%
- Entertainment$1400%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 30 | $556,335 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 11 | $25,635 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 19 | $9,081 |
| 4web, Inc. | 23 | $7,367 |
| Choice Spine, LLC | 6 | $6,443 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 5 | $5,754 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 23 | $2,877 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 17 | $2,491 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 9 | $1,709 |
| Stryker | 6 | $1,157 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 13 | $1,004 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 10 | $554 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $361 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 5 | $351 |
| Viseon, Inc. | 1 | $293 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $276 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $257 |
| Biedermann Motech, Inc. | 1 | $224 |
| Royal Biologics, Inc. | 3 | $221 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 2 | $197 |
| Theragen, Inc. | 1 | $195 |
| Spineology Inc. | 2 | $189 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 2 | $182 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $178 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 3 | $175 |
| DJO, LLC | 3 | $159 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $149 |
| Amplify Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $145 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| CTL Medical Corporation | 1 | $100 |
| Innovasis Inc | 1 | $80 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 1 | $77 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Neo Spine USA, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Abbott | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Vault C$283,261
- Reform Pedicle Screw System$272,841
- VAULT C ACDF SYSTEM$272,841
- PRODISC C$23,281
- SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$6,999
- M6-C$6,900
- Blackhawk Cervical Spacer System$5,623
- Magellan$5,361
- TIGERSHARK C$4,740
- Thunderbolt Minimally Invasive Pedicle Screw Systems$3,568
- Boomerang$2,875
- Ambassador$2,500
- Blackbird Spinal System$2,500
- PRODISC L$2,338
- Hawkeye Vertebral Body Replacement (VBR)$2,000
- M6-C Artificial Cervical Disc$1,643
- Medical Device$1,499
- Influx$1,338
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$1,195
- Stratofuse$1,123
How this compares
$624,459 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 161 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New York.
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Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in New York
- Frank SchwabNew York$5.1M
- Han KimNew York$3.9M
- Todd AlbertNew York$2.7M
- Jeffrey SpivakNew York$1.3M
- Aaron BucklandNew York$1M
- Sheeraz QureshiNew York$828K
- Jeffrey GoldsteinNew York$765K
- Oheneba Boachie-AdjeiNew York$313K
- Harvinder SandhuNew York$266K
- Federico GirardiNew York$144K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.