Joshua Wewel, MD
Neurological Surgery · Atlanta, GANPI 1700149184
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $80,388 of the $113,969 with a category attached, or 70.5%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 58.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $53,303, more than ten times the $3,991 reported in 2019. Among neurological surgery clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 310 payments — averaging $367.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$67K
- Medtronic$39K
- Tyber Medical, LLC$8K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$184
- Getset Surgical Inc$43
- Johnson & Johnson$39
- plus $60 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$80,38871%
- Travel & lodging$24,98922%
- Food & beverage$8,5928%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 252 | $66,505 |
| Medtronic | 49 | $38,850 |
| Tyber Medical, LLC | 1 | $8,288 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $184 |
| Getset Surgical Inc | 1 | $43 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $39 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Abbott | 1 | $17 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $15 |
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.
- XLIF$16,494
- TLIF$13,272
- Pulse$9,508
- X02-04 LLIF Disc Prep$8,288
- Anthem$6,000
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$1,882
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$1,080
- TLX$641
- RELINE$317
- COALITION MIS / MIS Ti$281
- OsteoStrand$161
- COHERE$159
- ACP$159
- CREO 5.5$157
- X-CORE$148
- Excelsius3D Imaging System$148
- INDEPENDENCE MIS$128
- BASE$114
- Osteocel$102
How this compares
$113,969 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 201 neurological surgery providers in Georgia.
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 | 39 | $298 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 22 | $240 |
| Methocarbamol | 18 | $196 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Atlanta
- Regis HaidAtlanta$25.5M
- Thomas MorrisonAtlanta$2.8M
- Christopher TomarasAtlanta$1.5M
- Daniel RefaiAtlanta$1.2M
- Gerald RodtsAtlanta$1.2M
- James RobinsonAtlanta$993K
- Michele JohnsonAtlanta$540K
- David McCrackenAtlanta$425K
- Robert GrossAtlanta$315K
- Kaveh KhajaviAtlanta$225K
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.