Joseph Brindise, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Schaumburg, ILNPI 1073873675
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (54.0%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 29 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 28.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $7,844 and has fallen 58.1% since, to $3,286 in 2025.
Across 202 payments — averaging $84.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$5K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$5K
- Cerapedics Inc.$1K
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$1K
- Stryker$925
- Johnson & Johnson$768
- plus $3K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$7,69245%
- Food & beverage$9,17754%
- Education$1211%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 50 | $4,824 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 8 | $4,749 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 4 | $1,461 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 8 | $1,379 |
| Stryker | 18 | $925 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 26 | $768 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 17 | $718 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 11 | $409 |
| Amgen | 17 | $351 |
| Abbott | 5 | $321 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 9 | $286 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $143 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $79 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $63 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $60 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 2 | $49 |
| Vertex | 2 | $46 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $28 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $28 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $27 |
| Theragen, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $18 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $9 |
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.
- Other - Miscellaneous$3,907
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$1,582
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$1,340
- O-ARM-ST$985
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$337
- UNID_PASS$317
- CAVUX Cervical Cage$315
- ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$163
- CLYDESDALE PTC SPINAL SYSTEM$162
- GAMMA$161
- Solus ALIF$155
- ETERNA$151
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$143
- ALTERA$123
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$119
- CD HORIZON$110
How this compares
$16,990 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Illinois.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 62 | $975 |
| Gabapentin | 70 | $694 |
| Pregabalin | 17 | $565 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 35 | $346 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 66 | $322 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 13 | $180 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 62 | $171 |
| Methylprednisolone | 22 | $146 |
| Meloxicam | 40 | $124 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 12 | $18 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Schaumburg
- Vivek MohanSchaumburg$168K
- Hanci ZhangSchaumburg$11K
- Carl GrafSchaumburg$585
- Babak LamiSchaumburg$171
- Frank PhillipsChicago$3.9M
- Kern SinghChicago$1.3M
- Christopher DewaldChicago$1.2M
- P Ronjon PaulNaperville$908K
- Philip MeinhardtQuincy$507K
- Anis MekhailPalos Heights$498K
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.