Has Fernando Checo, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $11,096 in general payments to Fernando Checo, MD across 212 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 Fernando Checo, 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 Fernando Checo, 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.

Fernando Checo, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Plainview, NYNPI 1942489950

Payments from drug & device makers

$11,096in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 212 payments — averaging $52.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$8K
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$552
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$530
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.$264
Royal Biologics, Inc.$258
Alphatec Spine, Inc$247
plus $1K from 13 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$11,096100%

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
Globus Medical(2 entities)	156	$7,969
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	2	$552
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	15	$530
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	3	$264
Royal Biologics, Inc.	2	$258
Alphatec Spine, Inc	1	$247
Johnson & Johnson	8	$240
DJO, LLC	5	$195
Stryker	1	$165
Vertex	6	$158
Abbott	2	$155
Zimmer Biomet	1	$122
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$118
Amgen	3	$45
Bioventus LLC	1	$22
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$16
Medtronic	1	$16
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$14
Baxter Healthcare	1	$11

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.

How this compares

$11,096 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 161 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$485,371

Medicare patients

845

Services billed

8,771

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
Diclofenac Sodium ErDiclofenac Sodium	444	$27,046
Celecoxib	174	$6,693
Diclofenac Sodium	22	$4,739
Gabapentin	282	$2,952
Meloxicam	764	$2,863
Duloxetine Hcl	145	$2,406
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	167	$1,716
Methylprednisolone	243	$1,623
Prednisone	191	$1,293
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	153	$1,026
Tramadol Hcl	159	$734
Tramadol Hcl ErTramadol Hcl	11	$670
Oxycodone Hcl	43	$428
Tizanidine Hcl	80	$414
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	24	$254

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Plainview

Hansen YuanSyracuse$31.7M
Frank CammisaNew York$6.2M
Frank SchwabNew York$5.1M
Han KimNew York$4M
Todd AlbertNew York$3M
Jeffrey SpivakNew York$1.3M
Aaron BucklandNew York$1.2M
Andrew SamaNy$942K
Sheeraz QureshiNew York$929K
Seth NeubardtWhite Plains$902K

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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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