Harel Deutsch, MD
Neurological Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1235194028
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (51.9%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 41 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.6%. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $26,671 and has fallen 84.9% since, to $4,014 in 2025.
Across 259 payments — averaging $290.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Nexxt Spine LLC$13K
- Stryker$11K
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$7K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$5K
- Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC$5K
- Titan Spine, LLC$5K
- plus $30K from 35 others
Across 58 payments — averaging $3391.30 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.
- Premia Spine, Ltd.$82K
- Medtronic$71K
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$36K
- Pfizer$6K
- Spineology Inc.$1K
- Additive Implants, Inc.$500
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$39,13152%
- Speaking & faculty fees$460%
- Travel & lodging$12,26116%
- Food & beverage$23,86932%
- Gifts$420%
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.
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.
- STRYKER NAV3I$9,100
- Connexx Systems$8,148
- nanoLOCK$4,629
- coflex$4,603
- ACTIVL ARTIFICIAL DISC$4,291
- FLOSEAL$3,905
- CAVUX Cervical Cage$2,819
- Other - Miscellaneous$2,236
- Xvision$1,683
- FlareHawk$1,622
- DTRAX Spinal System$1,385
- ALLY Bone Screw$1,385
- BIOLOGIX Allograft Bone$1,385
- MYSPINE$1,360
- Connexx System$1,225
- Connexx MIS & Open Systems$1,025
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$1,000
- ARx$890
- Nexxt Matrixx Products$787
- Excelsius - GPS$709
How this compares
$75,350 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 302 neurological 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 67 | $851 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 29 | $394 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 32 | $303 |
| Celecoxib | 14 | $297 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 24 | $266 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 28 | $265 |
| Meloxicam | 87 | $190 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 11 | $175 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 31 | $170 |
| Methylprednisolone | 11 | $78 |
| Baclofen | 11 | $75 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Chicago
- Tyler KoskiChicago$2.3M
- Vincent TraynelisChicago$1.8M
- Sergey NeckryshChicago$1.6M
- Richard FesslerChicago$910K
- John OtooleChicago$593K
- Fady CharbelChicago$507K
- Issam AwadChicago$266K
- Mohamad BydonChicago$163K
- Ali AlarajChicago$155K
- Konstantin SlavinChicago$153K
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.