Hugh Bassewitz, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Las Vegas, NVNPI 1083692586
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (57.7%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 86.4% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $18,473 and has fallen 83.3% since, to $3,088 in 2025.
Across 320 payments — averaging $170.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$47K
- Globus Medical$6K
- Spine Wave, Inc.$888
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$369
- Bioventus LLC$130
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$113
- plus $231 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,9325%
- Consulting fees$31,40058%
- Travel & lodging$8,44016%
- Food & beverage$11,64821%
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 | 232 | $47,010 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 63 | $5,679 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 10 | $888 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 2 | $369 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $130 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| VB Spine LLC | 2 | $63 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $51 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $35 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $19 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Expanding Innovations, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $12 |
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.
- SERRATO$23,496
- NAVIGATION$13,650
- NIAGARA LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$13,650
- MESA$11,362
- CAPRI$9,964
- YUKON$9,846
- VLIFT$9,846
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$5,383
- PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS$5,000
- REVEL (Expandable ACDF)$2,932
- NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$1,721
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$1,462
- ANCHOR L$701
- TRITANIUM$570
- ALIF PLATE$488
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$367
- OASYS$304
- Excelsius - GPS$297
- CHESAPEAKE$296
- Intracept$226
How this compares
$54,421 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 30 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Nevada.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 32 | $242 |
| Meloxicam | 27 | $98 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Las Vegas
- Kornelis PoelstraLas Vegas$2.2M
- George ElkanichLas Vegas$322K
- John ThalgottLas Vegas$320K
- Mark KabinsLas Vegas$118K
- Daniel LeeLas Vegas$52K
- Chinedu NwasikeLas Vegas$42K
- Kevin DebiparshadLas Vegas$37K
- Andrew LeeLas Vegas$31K
- Edward AndersonLas Vegas$14K
- Daniel LecavalierLas Vegas$8K
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.