Jeffrey Bash, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Middletown, CTNPI 1497868053
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $641,582 of the $839,956 with a category attached, or 76.4%. Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 87.4% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $201,022 and has fallen 63.2% since, to $73,939 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in CT 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 135 payments — averaging $6221.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$734K
- Spinefrontier, Inc.$100K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$3K
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$1K
- Corelink, LLC$372
- Royal Biologics, Inc.$205
- plus $467 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$641,58276%
- Consulting fees$164,19820%
- Travel & lodging$27,6273%
- Food & beverage$6,5491%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 108 | $734,035 |
| Spinefrontier, Inc. | 7 | $100,452 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 4 | $3,395 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $1,030 |
| Corelink, LLC | 5 | $372 |
| Royal Biologics, Inc. | 1 | $205 |
| Stryker | 1 | $170 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $150 |
| DJO, LLC | 3 | $56 |
| Vertex | 1 | $32 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 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.
- Solus ALIF$332,898
- AMP$319,568
- Solus$136,918
- VBR$100,452
- InSpan$74,202
- SLIFT$74,202
- Other - Miscellaneous$69,899
- DBMForm$49,202
- LTX$44,282
- NanoFuse Putty$25,000
- LIF$23,588
- DO NOT USE - Solus$21,113
- LLIF$20,606
- Porous Ti Cervical$13,080
- IdentiTi$11,770
- Illico$7,875
- VersaShield$3,186
- AlloQuent Structural Allograft$3,186
- Trinity Evolution$3,186
- Trinity ELITE$3,186
How this compares
$839,956 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 25 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Connecticut.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lidocaine | 12 | $490 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 20 | $165 |
| Meloxicam | 56 | $93 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 13 | $82 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Middletown
- Joseph SohnMiddletown$59K
- Alfred HicksMiddletown$1K
- Gerard GirasoleTrumbull$2.1M
- Steven McAnanyStamford$172K
- Shirvinda WijesekeraHamden$168K
- Alex GitelmanStamford$158K
- David BombackDanbury$95K
- Robert StocktonWallingford$71K
- Lane SperoTorrington$68K
- Daniel RubioNew Haven$39K
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.