Kai-Uwe Lewandrowski, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Tucson, AZNPI 1295736932
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $106,771 of the $122,843 with a category attached, or 86.9%. Medacta USA, Inc. accounts for 86.9% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $28,515 and has fallen 98.5% since, to $427 in 2025.
Across 44 payments — averaging $2791.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medacta USA, Inc.$107K
- Integrity Implants Inc.$12K
- Spineology Inc.$2K
- Nexxt Spine LLC$2K
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$427
- Wenzel Spine, Inc.$83
- plus $59 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$106,77187%
- Consulting fees$10,3508%
- Travel & lodging$4,9134%
- Food & beverage$8081%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 19 | $106,771 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 11 | $11,829 |
| Spineology Inc. | 2 | $2,143 |
| Nexxt Spine LLC | 7 | $1,531 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $427 |
| Wenzel Spine, Inc. | 1 | $83 |
| Riwospine, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $23 |
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.
- MECTALIF$106,771
- FlareHawk$5,278
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$2,070
- Nexxt Spine Product Portfolio$1,415
How this compares
$122,843 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Arizona.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 39 | $458 |
| Gabapentin | 21 | $264 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 12 | $174 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 33 | $101 |
| Diazepam | 47 | $96 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Tucson
- Steven ZeillerTucson$229K
- Adam BevevinoTucson$18K
- Peter duTucson$12K
- Stephen HanksTucson$1K
- Gerard JeongTucson$430
- Robert DziobaTucson$204
- Justin FieldPhoenix$2.3M
- John HallFlagstaff$783K
- Nima SalariPhoenix$741K
- Harvinder BediPhoenix$740K
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.