Has John Serak, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $42,492 in general payments to John Serak, MD across 185 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean John Serak, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about John Serak, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

John Serak, MD

Neurological Surgery · New Albany, INNPI 1053635656

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (46.5%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Globus Medical accounts for 64.1% of it on its own, with 26 other manufacturers making up the rest.

$42,492in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 185 payments — averaging $229.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$27K
Si-bone, Inc.$6K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
Medtronic$2K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
Stryker$1K
plus $3K from 21 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$19,73846%
Travel & lodging$15,71137%
Food & beverage$7,02417%
Education$200%

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
Globus Medical	51	$27,238
Si-bone, Inc.	33	$5,665
Alphatec Spine, Inc	17	$2,243
Medtronic(2 entities)	13	$1,821
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	7	$1,523
Stryker	12	$1,423
Johnson & Johnson	18	$652
MIS Technologies, LLC	2	$445
Terumo BCT, Inc.	2	$187
Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corp.	1	$160
Medacta USA, Inc.	1	$160
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	2	$148
CSL Behring	5	$131
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$124
Precision Spine, Inc.	1	$108
Nevro Corp.	2	$86
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	5	$85
Spineology Inc.	1	$62
Vertex	2	$52
Avanos Medical	2	$43
EMD Serono, Inc.	1	$26
Boston Scientific	1	$23
Amgen	1	$23
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$20
Spine Wave, Inc.	1	$18
Radius Health, Inc.	1	$14
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$13

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.

ELSA$8,800
Excelsius - GPS$4,596
IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$2,500
iFuse Implant$1,998
Other - Miscellaneous$1,725
ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$1,515
Velys$1,495
MAZOR X SYSTEM$1,421
EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,192
Spine$799
Quartex$586
Sable$582
Eminent Spine Oblique Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion Device$445
Excelsius3D Imaging System$319
MazorX - Renaissance$234
EXCELSIUS$165
MUST$160
Invictus MIS$132
ALLOGRAFT$127
M6-C$124

How this compares

$42,492 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 112 neurological surgery providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$354,719

Medicare patients

294

Services billed

945

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	66	$459
Gabapentin	33	$243
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	62	$220
Methocarbamol	26	$179
Methylprednisolone	21	$105
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	18	$92
Meloxicam	16	$27

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in New Albany

Jean-Pierre MobasserCarmel$3.5M
Troy PaynerCarmel$803K
Michael TurnerIndianapolis$522K
Eric PottsCarmel$345K
Souheil HaddadBloomington$161K
Mitesh ShahIndianapolis$133K
Bradley BohnstedtIndianapolis$122K
Daniel FulkersonSouth Bend$92K
David StockwellIndianapolis$75K
Daniel EddelmanIndianapolis$49K

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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.

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