Frank Schwab, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · New York, NYNPI 1811077878
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 449 payments — averaging $11,457 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$1.4M
- Highridge Medical LLC$689K
- MML US, Inc.$644K
- Medtronic$636K
- Zimmer Biomet$588K
- Zimvie Inc.$558K
- plus $638K from 12 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $5937.50 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- MML US, Inc.$20K
- Medtronic$4K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$4,165,50681%
- Consulting fees$681,02013%
- Speaking & faculty fees$168,9153%
- Travel & lodging$117,5662%
- Food & beverage$11,1010%
- Education$990%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 56 | $1,390,244 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 47 | $688,947 |
| MML US, Inc. | 104 | $644,263 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 45 | $635,802 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 62 | $588,357 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 30 | $558,460 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 34 | $447,500 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 50 | $148,770 |
| Medicrea USA, Corp. | 8 | $40,684 |
| Suvon Surgical LLC | 2 | $498 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $284 |
| 4web, Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Pinnacle Transplant Technologies, LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $24 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $8 |
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.
- Vitality$1,092,172
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$965,433
- Vital$660,213
- ReActiv8$643,016
- CAPSTONE$557,917
- Other - Miscellaneous$426,765
- EVEREST$412,464
- Surgimap$87,000
- CAPSTONE PTC SPINAL SYSTEM$76,211
- Vital Deformity, Degen, Hooks$57,757
- PASS-LP$40,684
- Vitality Power$40,003
- INVICTUS OPEN$35,515
- Invictus MIS$24,201
- Arsenal Deformity$23,625
- UNiD$21,793
- BIOLOGICS$19,147
- VersaTie$17,441
- Polaris Deformity Spinal System$17,415
- Trivium Derotation System$16,912
How this compares
$5,144,207 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 161 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New York.
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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 orthopaedic surgery of the spine in New York
- Frank CammisaNew York$6.2M
- Han KimNew York$4M
- Todd AlbertNew York$3M
- Jeffrey SpivakNew York$1.3M
- Aaron BucklandNew York$1.2M
- Sheeraz QureshiNew York$929K
- Fabien BitanNew York$884K
- Jeffrey GoldsteinNew York$765K
- Oheneba Boachie-AdjeiNew York$313K
- Matthew CunninghamNew York$304K
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.