Juan Rodriguez
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · New York, NYNPI 1396837522
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $87,250 of the $125,090 with a category attached, or 69.7%. Globus Medical accounts for 64.7% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $42,920, more than ten times the $232 reported in 2019.
Across 194 payments — averaging $644.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$81K
- Medtronic$20K
- Zimvie Inc.$11K
- Highridge Medical LLC$5K
- Zimmer Biomet$4K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- plus $1K from 10 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $30,000 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.
- Globus Medical$30K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$87,25070%
- Speaking & faculty fees$17,43814%
- Travel & lodging$12,60610%
- Food & beverage$7,7976%
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) | 56 | $80,991 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 44 | $20,265 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 26 | $10,689 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 7 | $5,495 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 34 | $4,205 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 7 | $2,183 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 7 | $404 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $206 |
| EBI, LLC | 2 | $179 |
| Corelink, LLC | 2 | $171 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $168 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $31 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $16 |
| Biosense Webster, 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.
- REFLECT$36,832
- REFLECT/REFLECT HDE$32,774
- The Tether$16,124
- CD HORIZON$7,800
- Excelsius - GPS$6,065
- Vital$3,434
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$3,146
- Vitality$2,550
- Vitality Power$2,550
- Other - Miscellaneous$2,100
- CREO$1,939
- Mobi-C$1,552
- Spine-None$1,338
- Excelsius Robotics System$975
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$944
- PD-Spine-New Product$600
- SILC$450
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$318
- UNID_PASS$274
- RELINE$272
How this compares
$125,090 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 161 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New York.
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Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in New York
- Frank SchwabNew York$5.1M
- Han KimNew York$3.9M
- Todd AlbertNew York$2.7M
- Jeffrey SpivakNew York$1.3M
- Aaron BucklandNew York$1M
- Sheeraz QureshiNew York$828K
- Jeffrey GoldsteinNew York$765K
- Fabien BitanNew York$624K
- Oheneba Boachie-AdjeiNew York$313K
- Harvinder SandhuNew York$266K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.