Jason Savage, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Cleveland, OHNPI 1982860573
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $605,145 of the $735,257 with a category attached, or 82.3%. Stryker accounts for 83.7% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 801 payments — averaging $917.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$616K
- VB Spine LLC$74K
- Highridge Medical LLC$17K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$12K
- Synthes GmbH$8K
- Medtronic$3K
- plus $6K from 10 others
Across 21 payments — averaging $569.81 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Stryker$12K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$605,14582%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,5001%
- Travel & lodging$88,89712%
- Food & beverage$36,7145%
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 | 587 | $615,695 |
| VB Spine LLC | 63 | $74,434 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 27 | $16,772 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 30 | $11,588 |
| Synthes GmbH | 11 | $7,927 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 25 | $2,529 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 21 | $2,331 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 6 | $1,877 |
| Spineology Inc. | 8 | $657 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $389 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $323 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $199 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 4 | $194 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 5 | $122 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $110 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $108 |
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.
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$190,702
- SERRATO$115,247
- TRITANIUM$92,503
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$62,355
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$57,647
- AIRO$54,494
- ES2$52,403
- CANYON RETRACTOR SYSTEMS$50,359
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$48,246
- MESA SPINAL SYSTEM$45,847
- MONTEREY AL$39,667
- OASYS$34,042
- AERO$33,897
- CAPRI$27,052
- MESA$26,225
- NIAGARA LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$22,806
- XIA 3$21,095
- RAVINE LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$20,150
- XIA 3 SYSTEM - SERRATO$18,305
- EVEREST$18,096
How this compares
$735,257 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Ohio.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 21 | $329 |
| Gabapentin | 16 | $99 |
| Meloxicam | 22 | $76 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Cleveland
- Jerold GurleyCleveland$649K
- Haariss IlyasCleveland$314K
- Saad ChaudharyCleveland$84K
- Zachary GordonCleveland$73K
- Taylor PaziukCleveland$32K
- Jonathan BeldingCleveland$15K
- Bilal ButtCleveland$13K
- Prashant RajanCleveland$9K
- Emily HuCleveland$9K
- Christina ChengCleveland$3K
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.