Ilya Gutman, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Birmingham, ALNPI 1811417066
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $4,770 of the $6,635 with a category attached, or 71.9%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 34.6% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in AL, where the typical reported total is $8,697.
Across 49 payments — averaging $135.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Synthes GmbH$2K
- Arthrex$814
- Medtronic$263
- Stryker$205
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$148
- plus $637 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,77072%
- Food & beverage$1,86528%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 13 | $2,299 |
| Synthes GmbH | 4 | $2,270 |
| Arthrex | 8 | $814 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $263 |
| Stryker | 2 | $205 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $148 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $118 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $114 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 2 | $114 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $55 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 2 | $55 |
| Orthalign Inc | 1 | $49 |
| Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC | 1 | $39 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 1 | $36 |
| MF MED | 1 | $29 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $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.
- VIPER$1,893
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$295
- Velys$148
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$144
- NAPA$144
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$144
- MagnetOs$114
How this compares
$6,635 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 20 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Alabama.
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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 Birmingham
- Mohamed MorsyBirmingham$9K
- James FaulknerBirmingham$1K
- Javier RetoHuntsville$768K
- Timothy HoltMontgomery$478K
- Timothy BassettTuscaloosa$291K
- Phillip KravetzCullman$224K
- Charles GordonDaphne$208K
- Larry ParkerHuntsville$136K
- Todd VolkmanMobile$34K
- Bendt PetersenMobile$30K
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.