Has Ilya Laufer, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $213,750 in general payments to Ilya Laufer, MD across 169 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Ilya Laufer, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Ilya Laufer, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Ilya Laufer, MD

Neurological Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1821229386

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (44.8%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Spine Wave, Inc. at 32.8% of the total. Among neurological surgery clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$213,750in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 169 payments — averaging $1264.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Spine Wave, Inc.$70K
Icotec Medical Inc.$70K
Globus Medical$35K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$25K
Spineart USA Inc$5K
Medtronic$4K
plus $5K from 11 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$95,79645%
Consulting fees$85,85940%
Speaking & faculty fees$3,1731%
Travel & lodging$23,94611%
Food & beverage$4,9762%

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
Spine Wave, Inc.	21	$70,012
Icotec Medical Inc.	61	$69,908
Globus Medical(2 entities)	24	$35,031
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	14	$25,105
Spineart USA Inc	14	$4,914
Medtronic(2 entities)	10	$3,846
Synthes GmbH	4	$2,502
Alphatec Spine, Inc	4	$592
Brainlab, Inc.	2	$501
Stryker	4	$454
Johnson & Johnson	3	$278
Cerapedics Inc.	2	$206
Intrinsic Therapeutics	1	$136
Lifenet Health	1	$123
Surgical Theater. Inc.	1	$81
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	2	$41
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$19

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.

icotec BlackArmor Spine System$36,160
VIPER$24,880
Spinal Implants$23,895
PROFICIENT POSTERIOR CERVICAL SPINE SYSTEM$22,027
CREO$20,939
CREO DLX$13,903
EXPEDIUM$12,285
VADER PEDICLE SYSTEM 6.0, SCREW, Carbon/PEEK, POLYAX., FEN., O 5.5 X 45 MM$12,224
VADER PEDICLE SYSTEM, ROD, Carbon/PEEK, CURVED, 6.0 R450 X 200 MM$12,224
KONG-TL VBR E, EXPANDABLE BODY, L, 19 MM X 27 - 37 MM$12,224
KONG-TL VBR, END PLATE, ROUND, L AND SCREW, 12 X 43 MM$12,224
KONG-TL VBR, END PLATE, RECTANGULAR, M AND SCREW, 12 X 33 MM$12,224
CD HORIZON$2,868
Posterior Fixation$714
MazorX - Renaissance$478
N/A$426
Vader Pedicle System$282
BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$272
I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$151
VMIS$123

How this compares

$213,750 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 446 neurological surgery providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$189,308

Medicare patients

238

Services billed

463

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 neurological surgery in New York

J MoccoNew York$1.6M
Alejandro BerensteinNew York$1.1M
Darryl LauNew York$915K
Mark BilskyNew York$903K
Jan-Karl BurkhardtNew York$441K
Dean ChouNew York$383K
Reade DeleacyNew York$329K
Johanna FifiNew York$326K
David LangerNew York$258K
Ali BaajNew York$240K

See the full list for New York →

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.

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