Katie Krause, MD
Neurological Surgery · Seattle, WANPI 1881950772
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $13,049 of the $17,173 with a category attached, or 76.0%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 26.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $5,796 and has fallen 64.6% since, to $2,051 in 2025.
Across 121 payments — averaging $141.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$4K
- Medtronic$4K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$3K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Augmedics Inc.$1K
- plus $2K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$13,04976%
- Food & beverage$4,12424%
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) | 32 | $4,475 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 38 | $3,733 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 9 | $3,314 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 7 | $1,382 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 9 | $1,229 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 7 | $1,129 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 9 | $1,091 |
| Viseon, Inc. | 1 | $334 |
| Stryker | 1 | $133 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $120 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $79 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $60 |
| Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Abbott | 1 | $28 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $26 |
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.
- Xvision$4,549
- Other - Miscellaneous$3,071
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$1,913
- STREAMLINE TL SPINAL FIXATION SYSTEM$1,282
- EXPEDIUM$1,121
- ARAI SURGICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM$1,054
- STREAMLINE* OCT OCCIPITO-CERVICO-THORACIC SYSTEM$1,054
- SIMMETRY IMPLANT, 12.5MM X 50MM$1,054
- COFLEX INTERLAMINAR TECHNOLOGY, 10MM$1,054
- XLIF$824
- HEDRON IA$804
- Timberline$663
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$576
- Excelsius3D Imaging System$409
- ELSA$372
- MaxView System - Lateral Set$334
- Vitality$274
- Excelsius Deformity$265
- RISE-L . RISE-L A/L$195
- MazorX - Renaissance$179
How this compares
$17,173 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 175 neurological surgery providers in Washington.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 27 | $528 |
| Gabapentin | 44 | $451 |
| Methocarbamol | 19 | $211 |
| Methylprednisolone | 31 | $194 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 17 | $170 |
| Pregabalin | 14 | $144 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 17 | $91 |
| Meloxicam | 29 | $53 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Seattle
- Rod OskouianSeattle$2.4M
- Christoph HofstetterSeattle$768K
- Stephen MonteithSeattle$151K
- Jean-Christophe LevequeSeattle$120K
- Vijay YanamadalaSeattle$85K
- Hoan Vu TranSeattle$78K
- Martin RutkowskiSeattle$62K
- Bailey ZampellaSeattle$38K
- Melanie WalkerSeattle$38K
- Elias EliasSeattle$35K
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.