Joseph Stern, MD
Neurological Surgery · Ann Arbor, MINPI 1558352831
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $50,175 of the $53,829 with a category attached, or 93.2%. Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 93.2% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $10,331 and has fallen 62.9% since, to $3,834 in 2025.
Across 77 payments — averaging $699.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$50K
- Globus Medical$3K
- Stryker$192
- Si-bone, Inc.$139
- Boston Scientific$136
- Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$65
- plus $208 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$50,17593%
- Travel & lodging$2,8675%
- Food & beverage$7861%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 28 | $50,175 |
| Globus Medical | 16 | $2,914 |
| Stryker | 4 | $192 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 6 | $139 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $136 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $65 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $60 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Abbott | 1 | $16 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $15 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $13 |
| Wound Management Technologies, Inc | 1 | $11 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $4 |
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.
- BridgePoint$46,341
- Other - Miscellaneous$3,834
- Pulse$2,147
How this compares
$53,829 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 256 neurological surgery providers in Michigan.
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.
Other neurological surgery in Ann Arbor
- Frank LamarcaAnn Arbor$4.8M
- Daniel OrringerAnn Arbor$500K
- Noojan KazemiAnn Arbor$406K
- Jacob JosephAnn Arbor$89K
- Michael CloneyAnn Arbor$81K
- Timothy YeeAnn Arbor$80K
- Justin SingerGrand Rapids$944K
- Jayant JagannathanTroy$685K
- Timothy SpencerBattle Creek$543K
- Daniel FahimRoyal Oak$525K
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.