Has John Shiau received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $160,884 in general payments to John Shiau across 593 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 Shiau 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 Shiau 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 Shiau

Neurological Surgery · Staten Island, NYNPI 1346221058

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (47.7%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 54 manufacturers reported payments, led by Si-bone, Inc. at 33.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $41,404 and has fallen 75.2% since, to $10,278 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$160,884in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 593 payments — averaging $271.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Si-bone, Inc.$54K
Precision Spine, Inc.$15K
Omnia Medical, LLC$15K
CTL Medical Corporation$12K
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$8K
Nexxt Spine LLC$7K
plus $51K from 48 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$8,9996%
Consulting fees$76,79448%
Speaking & faculty fees$2,0861%
Travel & lodging$31,87120%
Food & beverage$40,16925%
Gifts$5300%
Entertainment$4350%

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
Si-bone, Inc.	141	$54,096
Precision Spine, Inc.	42	$15,026
Omnia Medical, LLC	1	$14,500
CTL Medical Corporation	24	$11,632
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc	14	$7,704
Nexxt Spine LLC	37	$7,376
Spineart USA Inc	12	$7,109
Cerapedics Inc.	20	$4,912
Globus Medical(2 entities)	28	$4,302
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	26	$3,373
Baxter Healthcare	33	$3,287
Medtronic(3 entities)	32	$3,013
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	11	$2,277
Integrity Implants Inc.	15	$2,157
Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus	11	$1,860
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	15	$1,642
Stryker	9	$1,622
The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education	4	$1,577
Spinal Elements, Inc.	13	$1,537
Choice Spine, LLC	3	$1,484
Spineology Inc.	4	$1,386
Johnson & Johnson	18	$1,114
Intrinsic Therapeutics	12	$946
Xtant Medical Inc	7	$758
Sanara Medtech Inc.	7	$749
Spine Wave, Inc.	6	$676
Elevation Spine, Inc.	5	$549
Adcura, Inc.	2	$476
Viseon, Inc.	5	$444
Stratus Medical, LLC	3	$341
Royal Biologics, Inc.	2	$321
Nevro Corp.	4	$301
AbbVie	3	$249
Abbott	2	$243
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$158
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$150
Centinel Spine, LLC	2	$140
Theragen, Inc.	1	$132
Painteq LLC	1	$123
GS Solutions, Inc.	1	$117
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	1	$116
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$112
Wenzel Spine, Inc.	1	$109
Zimvie Inc.	1	$108
Zimmer Biomet	1	$100
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	1	$93
Ulrich Medical USA, Inc.	1	$91
Amplify Surgical, Inc.	1	$76
DJO, LLC	1	$64
Boston Scientific	2	$50
Icotec Medical Inc.	1	$39
Synaptive Medical Inc.	1	$33
Camber Spine Technologies LLC	1	$21
GE HealthCare	1	$12

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$48,842
MagnetOs$7,180
PERLA C$5,514
Spinal$4,931
REFORM TI CT MODULAR MIS PEDICLE SCREW SYSTEM$4,664
MD VUE LATERAL ACCESS$3,357
SURELOK MIS 3L$3,357
i-FACTOR Putty$2,571
INTERVERTEBRAL BODY FUSION DEVICE$2,444
FlareHawk$2,346
Pulse$2,259
Nexxt Matrixx Products$2,122
Reform Pedicle Screw System$2,000
I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$1,950
ACTIFUSE$1,858
VIPER$1,614
Nexxt Spine Product Technology$1,524
Blackhawk Cervical Spacer System$1,259
Rampart Duo Interbody Fusion System$1,224
REFORM MIDLINE CORTICAL SCREW SYSTEM$1,151

How this compares

$160,884 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 446 neurological surgery providers in New York.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Pregabalin	11	$1,022
Tizanidine Hcl	18	$322
Gabapentin	18	$177

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Staten Island

Soriaya MotivalaStaten Island$168K
Jonathan RasouliStaten Island$93K
Ryan DenhaeseWilliamsville$1.9M
J MoccoNew York$1.6M
Adnan SiddiquiWilliamsville$1.5M
Leo HopkinsBuffalo$1.2M
Aziz Basem QandahNew Hartford$1.1M
Alejandro BerensteinNew York$1.1M
Darryl LauNew York$915K
Mark BilskyNew York$903K

See the full list for New York →

Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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