Joseph Maslak, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Livonia, MINPI 1710305511
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $8,806 of the $13,340 with a category attached, or 66.0%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 42.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $5,125 and has fallen 52.3% since, to $2,447 in 2025.
Across 81 payments — averaging $164.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$6K
- Globus Medical$4K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- Medtronic$427
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$275
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$114
- plus $278 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$8,80666%
- Food & beverage$4,25932%
- Education$2752%
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 | 35 | $5,598 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 19 | $4,337 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 6 | $2,312 |
| Medtronic | 8 | $427 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $275 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $64 |
| Pinnacle, Inc | 1 | $60 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $26 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $18 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- TRITANIUM$2,373
- Other - Miscellaneous$2,238
- ELSA, ELSA AL/ATP$1,494
- SERRATO$1,200
- Excelsius Robotics System$1,127
- ANCHOR C$957
- ESCALATE$957
- XIA$957
- OASYS$957
- YUKON$525
- RISE$515
- MESA$426
- ALEUTIAN TLIF MI$341
- ALEUTIAN TLIF$341
- SECURE-C$248
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$175
- Quartex$151
- FIXOS$148
- ELSA$142
- EXELCIUS$122
How this compares
$13,340 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 37 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Michigan.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 100 | $919 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 76 | $749 |
| Gabapentin | 69 | $692 |
| Ibuprofen | 37 | $317 |
| Pregabalin | 21 | $240 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 23 | $102 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Livonia
- Rasheed AbiolaLivonia$43K
- Scott McCartyLivonia$29K
- Stanley LeeLivonia$2K
- Peter BonoSouthfield$786K
- Joseph BrownGrand Rapids$565K
- Nilesh PatelDearborn$449K
- Michael KastenKalamazoo$261K
- John LamacchiaRochester$179K
- Joshua EllwitzKalamazoo$150K
- Michael KapsokavathisBirmingham$120K
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.