Jaime Nieto, MD
Neurological Surgery · Flushing, NYNPI 1417909169
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $122,925 of the $170,101 with a category attached, or 72.3%. Medtronic accounts for 80.0% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $62,884 and has fallen 98.2% since, to $1,110 in 2025. 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.
Across 201 payments — averaging $846.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$136K
- Stryker$30K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$569
- Centinel Spine, LLC$465
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$211
- plus $383 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$23,50014%
- Speaking & faculty fees$122,92572%
- Travel & lodging$18,15911%
- Food & beverage$5,5173%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 130 | $136,130 |
| Stryker | 46 | $30,297 |
| Globus Medical | 8 | $2,046 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $569 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 2 | $465 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $211 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $119 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $106 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $77 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $47 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $14 |
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.
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$45,385
- CLYDESDALE PTC SPINAL SYSTEM$44,001
- CLYDESDALE$31,499
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$23,931
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$4,950
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$3,417
- NIAGARA LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$1,805
- Excelsius - GPS$929
- Velys$619
- Excelsius Robotics System$534
- PRODISC L$402
- EXCELSIUS$338
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$237
- UNiD$236
- Spinal-Stim$211
- MONTEREY AL$189
- nanoLOCK-C$179
- CAPSTONE$171
- N/A$166
- OSTEOCOOL RF ABLATION$150
How this compares
$170,101 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 446 neurological surgery providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ibuprofen | 27 | $231 |
| Gabapentin | 15 | $71 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Flushing
- Peter HollisFlushing$417K
- Galal ElsayedFlushing$156K
- Ryan DenhaeseWilliamsville$1.9M
- J MoccoNew York$1.6M
- Adnan SiddiquiWilliamsville$1.5M
- Leo HopkinsBuffalo$1.2M
- Aziz Basem QandahNew Hartford$1.1M
- Alejandro BerensteinNew York$1.1M
- Darryl LauNew York$915K
- Mark BilskyNew York$903K
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.