Joseph Driver
Neurological Surgery · Cleveland, OHNPI 1871955450
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $14,116 of the $22,088 with a category attached, or 63.9%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 40.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $13,151 and has fallen 63.2% since, to $4,843 in 2025.
Across 155 payments — averaging $142.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$9K
- Globus Medical$6K
- Medtronic$3K
- Synthes GmbH$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$533
- Si-bone, Inc.$507
- plus $371 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$14,11664%
- Food & beverage$7,97336%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 64 | $8,906 |
| Globus Medical | 40 | $6,030 |
| Medtronic | 34 | $3,354 |
| Synthes GmbH | 2 | $2,386 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $533 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 5 | $507 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $254 |
| Carbofix Spine Inc | 1 | $67 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$3,772
- AERO-LL$2,221
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$1,329
- Excelsius - GPS$1,218
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$970
- N/A$792
- CLYDESDALE PTC SPINAL SYSTEM$656
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$435
- Captivate VL$424
- Excelsius Deformity$414
- Teligen$357
- AIRO$330
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$314
- UNID_PASS$284
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$254
- ALTERA$190
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$187
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$168
- ADAPTIX INTERBODY SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$161
- Expedium VERSE$146
How this compares
$22,088 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 301 neurological surgery providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 11 | $60 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Cleveland
- Abdi MohitCleveland$884K
- Mark BainCleveland$242K
- Pablo RecinosCleveland$211K
- Michael SteinmetzCleveland$168K
- Josue Avecillas ChasinCleveland$144K
- Gene BarnettCleveland$135K
- Prakash KotagalCleveland$82K
- Ajit KrishnaneyCleveland$76K
- Gabriel SmithCleveland$72K
- Peter RasmussenCleveland$58K
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.