RxDoctor Payments Data

Jeffrey Spivak, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · New York, NYNPI 1700861168

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $897,224 of the $1,308,973 with a category attached, or 68.5%. Medtronic accounts for 96.5% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $540,958 and has fallen 94.1% since, to $32,156 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in NY 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.

$1,308,973in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 50 payments — averaging $26,179 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$1.3M
  • Titan Spine, LLC$46K
  • Nexus Spine, LLC$215
  • Stryker$149
  • Zimmer Biomet$122
  • Globus Medical$66
  • plus $158 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Royalty or licence$897,22469%
  • Food & beverage$1,3620%
  • Other$410,38731%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Medtronic(2 entities)37$1,262,553
Titan Spine, LLC2$45,711
Nexus Spine, LLC2$215
Stryker1$149
Zimmer Biomet1$122
Globus Medical1$66
AbbVie3$63
Johnson & Johnson1$56
Lilly USA, LLC1$22
Si-bone, Inc.1$16

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

$1,308,973 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 161 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$152,510
Medicare patients
263
Services billed
491

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Diclofenac Sodium13$64

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in New York

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