Jay Rhee
Neurological Surgery · Rockville, MDNPI 1659532489
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (48.8%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 58.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $41,257 and has fallen 66.7% since, to $13,754 in 2025.
Across 184 payments — averaging $530.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$57K
- Bioventus LLC$29K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$9K
- Globus Medical$737
- Spineology Inc.$521
- Painteq LLC$453
- plus $2K from 14 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $725.00 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.
- QED Therapeutics, Inc.$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$47,68849%
- Speaking & faculty fees$26,32827%
- Travel & lodging$13,44814%
- Food & beverage$10,22910%
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 | 107 | $56,716 |
| Bioventus LLC | 27 | $28,727 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 12 | $8,872 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 8 | $737 |
| Spineology Inc. | 3 | $521 |
| Painteq LLC | 4 | $453 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $227 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus | 1 | $226 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $218 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $191 |
| Abbott | 2 | $143 |
| Insightec,inc | 1 | $141 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $133 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $129 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $87 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $74 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $28 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $23 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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.
- TRITANIUM$20,000
- BoneScalpel$19,707
- NIAGARA LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$15,000
- ES2 SPINAL SYSTEM$13,250
- Other - Miscellaneous$8,044
- BONESCALPEL & SONICONE (O.R.)$7,782
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$7,010
- ES2$6,399
- ARIA$6,399
- SPINEMAP$6,153
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$4,680
- RAVINE LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$4,500
- AIRO$3,500
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$2,000
- NEXUS-10 MKII$625
- SONOPET IQ$500
- OASYS$394
- PAINTEQ$372
- ANCHOR L$323
- CAYMAN PLATE SYSTEM$286
How this compares
$97,692 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 133 neurological surgery providers in Maryland.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 68 | $1,296 |
| Pregabalin | 28 | $814 |
| Methocarbamol | 82 | $771 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 44 | $699 |
| Methylprednisolone | 75 | $529 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 101 | $501 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 25 | $388 |
| Celecoxib | 14 | $384 |
| Meloxicam | 35 | $181 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 44 | $150 |
| Dexamethasone | 11 | $134 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Rockville
- Alexander TaiRockville$6K
- Alexander CoonBaltimore$2.7M
- Charles SansurBaltimore$1.8M
- Faheem SandhuClinton$1.5M
- Nicholas TheodoreBaltimore$833K
- Daniel SciubbaBaltimore$789K
- Hugo BenalcazarBel Air$380K
- Henry BremBaltimore$353K
- Ira GaronzikBaltimore$297K
- James ConwayBaltimore$273K
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.