Jean-Christophe Leveque, MD
Neurological Surgery · Seattle, WANPI 1285756304
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (59.3%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.7%. 2025 is the largest year on record at $49,543, 2.0 times the $24,697 reported in 2019. Among neurological surgery clinicians in WA 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 212 payments — averaging $566.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Axis Spine Technologies Inc.$28K
- Si-bone, Inc.$24K
- Medtronic$19K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$14K
- Medicrea USA, Corp.$12K
- Mirus, LLC$6K
- plus $17K from 15 others
Across 29 payments — averaging $4281.48 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.
- Si-bone, Inc.$124K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$71,25059%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,1811%
- Travel & lodging$36,40330%
- Food & beverage$11,3169%
- Gifts$340%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Axis Spine Technologies Inc. | 14 | $28,437 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 38 | $24,012 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 29 | $18,953 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 26 | $14,484 |
| Medicrea USA, Corp. | 5 | $11,521 |
| Mirus, LLC | 6 | $6,198 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 31 | $6,042 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 31 | $5,474 |
| Synthes GmbH | 2 | $1,739 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 10 | $1,025 |
| Stryker | 8 | $974 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $393 |
| Mighty Oak Medical | 1 | $220 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $159 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $131 |
| VB Spine LLC | 1 | $122 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $79 |
| Theradaptive, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $24 |
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.
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$22,880
- orthopedic spinal implants$13,762
- Axis Spine Technologies ALIF Implant$11,711
- PASS-LP$11,471
- UNiD$11,471
- Invictus MIS$7,250
- Other - Miscellaneous$6,497
- EUROPA Pedicle Screw System$6,183
- CYGNUS Anterior Cervical Plate$6,183
- Axis Spine Technologies ALIF$2,918
- MISCELLANEOUS$2,898
- RISE-L . RISE-L A/L$2,868
- Xvision$2,762
- XLIF$1,531
- Lattus$1,268
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$613
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$531
- RELINE$450
- Firebird SI Navigation System$430
- MazorX - Renaissance$327
How this compares
$120,183 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 175 neurological surgery providers in Washington.
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.
Other neurological surgery in Seattle
- Rod OskouianSeattle$2.4M
- Christoph HofstetterSeattle$768K
- Stephen MonteithSeattle$151K
- Vijay YanamadalaSeattle$85K
- Hoan Vu TranSeattle$78K
- Martin RutkowskiSeattle$62K
- Bailey ZampellaSeattle$38K
- Melanie WalkerSeattle$38K
- Elias EliasSeattle$35K
- Ryder GwinnSeattle$35K
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.