Has Jason Cuellar received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $156,799 in general payments to Jason Cuellar across 138 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 Jason Cuellar 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 Jason Cuellar 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.

Jason Cuellar

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Jupiter, FLNPI 1427292291

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $131,823 of the $156,799 with a category attached, or 84.1%. Centinel Spine, LLC accounts for 88.3% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest.

$156,799in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 138 payments — averaging $1136.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Centinel Spine, LLC$138K
Aegis Spine, Inc.$11K
Altus Partners. LLC$2K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$1K
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$1K
Medtronic$1K
plus $2K from 12 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$131,82384%
Travel & lodging$17,95711%
Food & beverage$7,0194%

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
Centinel Spine, LLC	81	$138,482
Aegis Spine, Inc.	1	$11,000
Altus Partners. LLC	2	$1,832
Alphatec Spine, Inc	8	$1,425
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	11	$1,241
Medtronic(2 entities)	11	$1,145
Globus Medical	7	$522
Johnson & Johnson	3	$311
Integrity Implants Inc.	1	$168
Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC	2	$167
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	3	$140
Boston Scientific	1	$105
Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc.	2	$101
Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.	1	$90
Nexxt Spine LLC	1	$20
Radius Health, Inc.	1	$19
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	1	$17
Precision Medical Products Inc.	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.

How this compares

$156,799 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 159 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Florida.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Celecoxib	21	$622
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	22	$263
Methylprednisolone	14	$102
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	12	$41

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Jupiter

Stanley GolishJupiter$212K
Harry ShufflebargerMiami$3.5M
Paul KellerMelbourne$3.4M
Thomas SweeneySarasota$2.3M
Geoffrey CronenTampa$2.2M
James BillysOdessa$1.9M
Mark DekutoskiDestin$1.8M
Farhan SiddiqiOdessa$1.7M
Samuel JosephSafety Harbor$1.7M
Thomas ErricoMiami$1.6M

See the full list for Florida →

Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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