Joshua Heller, MD
Neurological Surgery · Philadelphia, PANPI 1972742906
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $330,499 of the $518,607 with a category attached, or 63.7%. It is spread thinly across 27 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.9%. Among neurological surgery clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 602 payments — averaging $861.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Si-bone, Inc.$114K
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$95K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$76K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$71K
- Globus Medical$63K
- Zimmer Biomet$52K
- plus $49K from 21 others
Across 22 payments — averaging $7099.41 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$119K
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$22K
- Johnson & Johnson$10K
- Tyber Medical, LLC$6K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$100,63019%
- Consulting fees$330,49964%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,2001%
- Travel & lodging$59,99612%
- Food & beverage$22,0824%
- Education$790%
- Gifts$40%
- Entertainment$1160%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Si-bone, Inc. | 152 | $113,528 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 58 | $94,613 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 37 | $76,058 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 71 | $70,596 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 103 | $62,781 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 69 | $51,939 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 22 | $21,220 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 8 | $15,574 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $4,725 |
| Stryker | 29 | $2,832 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 20 | $1,683 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 3 | $666 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 2 | $344 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 3 | $341 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 8 | $329 |
| Surgical Theater. Inc. | 1 | $232 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 2 | $214 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 3 | $177 |
| Innovasis Inc | 1 | $177 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $116 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $69 |
| GS Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $28 |
| EBI, LLC | 1 | $21 |
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.
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$55,317
- iFuse Implant$54,290
- SafeOp$49,741
- CAVUX Cervical Cage$47,440
- DTRAX Spinal System$45,544
- ALLY Bone Screw$45,544
- BIOLOGIX Allograft Bone$45,544
- VuePoint$43,621
- Vital$22,726
- Other - Miscellaneous$21,434
- CORTERA$18,658
- Vital Deformity, Degen, Hooks$15,900
- TrellOss-C SA$15,900
- Mobi-C$15,900
- ProLift Expandable Interbody, 12mm x 28mm, Large 15 degree$15,900
- XLIF$11,907
- ALLOGRAFT$11,306
- PD-Spine-New Product$9,603
- CLARITY RETRACTOR SYSTEM-LATERAL$9,038
- ROSA Spine$8,897
How this compares
$518,607 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 390 neurological surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 45 | $738 |
| Celecoxib | 13 | $476 |
| Meloxicam | 18 | $41 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Philadelphia
- Amer SamdaniPhiladelphia$4.4M
- Brian JankowitzPhiladelphia$823K
- Srinivas PrasadPhiladelphia$513K
- Chengyuan WuPhiladelphia$377K
- John ShinPhiladelphia$306K
- Omar ChoudhriPhiladelphia$304K
- Pascal JabbourPhiladelphia$198K
- Casey HalpernPhiladelphia$186K
- Steven FulopPhiladelphia$140K
- Kyle MuellerPhiladelphia$138K
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.