RxDoctor Payments Data

Jonathan Belding, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Cleveland, OHNPI 1275776171

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (42.9%), consulting fees and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Globus Medical accounts for 79.4% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $8,869 and has fallen 79.6% since, to $1,805 in 2025.

$15,491in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 56 payments — averaging $276.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Globus Medical$12K
  • Stryker$2K
  • Arthrex$462
  • Nexus Medical Technologies LLC$360
  • Innovation Technologies Inc$158
  • Alphatec Spine, Inc$156
  • plus $470 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$4,00026%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$3,20021%
  • Travel & lodging$6,65043%
  • Food & beverage$1,64111%

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.

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

$15,491 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$225,528
Medicare patients
273
Services billed
845

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
Gabapentin114$1,368
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl73$674
Pregabalin17$428
Oxycodone Hcl46$399
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen32$337
Topiramate12$130
Tramadol Hcl28$126
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine11$114
Tizanidine Hcl11$91
Methylprednisolone14$80
Diazepam26$61
Meloxicam12$16

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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