George Miz, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Flossmoor, ILNPI 1770570699
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $701,515 of the $767,894 with a category attached, or 91.4%. Stryker accounts for 92.4% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $167,076 and has fallen 52.6% since, to $79,258 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 35 payments — averaging $21,940 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$709K
- VB Spine LLC$58K
- Si-bone, Inc.$105
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$701,51591%
- Consulting fees$7,2501%
- Speaking & faculty fees$58,6898%
- Food & beverage$4390%
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 | 31 | $709,354 |
| VB Spine LLC | 3 | $58,435 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $105 |
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.
- ALEUTIAN INTERBODY SYSTEMS$467,652
- ALEUTIAN TLIF$175,428
- MESA SPINAL SYSTEM$58,435
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$3,750
- EVEREST$3,500
- ADVANCED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$117
- iFuse Implant$105
How this compares
$767,894 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 844 orthopaedic surgery providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nabumetone | 21 | $139 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Flossmoor
- Peter BonuttiEffingham$24.3M
- Steven HaddadGlenview$12.6M
- Aaron RosenbergChicago$12.4M
- Treg BrownHerrin$6.6M
- Wayne GoldsteinMorton Grove$4.9M
- Steven ChudikWestmont$4.1M
- Matthew SquireAurora$2.9M
- David ManningBurr Ridge$2.3M
- Ritesh ShahMorton Grove$2.3M
- Anish KadakiaChicago$2.1M
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.