Kenneth Yonemura, MD
Neurological Surgery · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1336239920
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (57.2%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C. at 57.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $30,729 and has fallen 76.7% since, to $7,161 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in UT 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 94 payments — averaging $1249.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C.$67K
- Ossdsign USA Incorporated$20K
- Spineology Inc.$13K
- Benvenue Medical Inc$5K
- Baylis Medical Company Inc$5K
- Globus Medical$3K
- plus $4K from 15 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $1326.75 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.
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$8K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$67,16557%
- Consulting fees$38,55033%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,7762%
- Travel & lodging$5,9485%
- Food & beverage$4,0303%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C. | 7 | $67,165 |
| Ossdsign USA Incorporated | 9 | $20,271 |
| Spineology Inc. | 10 | $12,996 |
| Benvenue Medical Inc | 7 | $5,252 |
| Baylis Medical Company Inc | 6 | $5,167 |
| Globus Medical | 26 | $2,780 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 6 | $928 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $867 |
| Spineguard, Inc. | 2 | $698 |
| Baylis Medical Technologies Inc. | 2 | $520 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus | 1 | $175 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $157 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $126 |
| Expanding Innovations, Inc. | 2 | $98 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 2 | $92 |
| Nexxt Spine LLC | 1 | $55 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Vertex | 1 | $17 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $13 |
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.
- TiLock$43,188
- OptiMesh IDE Study$5,600
- Kiva VCF Treatment System$5,227
- Blazer Vertebral Augmentation Kit$5,227
- Rampart Duo Interbody Fusion System$5,000
- Anchor Knot$3,500
- Excelsius - GPS$2,124
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$1,565
- OssDsign Catalyst$900
- DUO LUMBAR INTERBODY FUSION DEVICE$800
- Intracept$776
- PediGuard$675
- LunaXT$600
- AnchorKnot Tissue Approximation Kit$525
- Medical Device$143
- MOBI-C PLUG & FIT US$126
How this compares
$117,469 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 75 neurological surgery providers in Utah.
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 | 25 | $336 |
| Prednisone | 11 | $38 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Salt Lake City
- Mark MahanSalt Lake City$698K
- Ramesh GrandhiSalt Lake City$586K
- Andrew DaileySalt Lake City$74K
- Craig KilburgSalt Lake City$66K
- Ronald ApfelbaumSalt Lake City$56K
- Guilherme Santos PiedadeSalt Lake City$51K
- Karol BudohoskiSalt Lake City$30K
- Randy JensenSalt Lake City$22K
- Joe MendezSalt Lake City$17K
- Ilyas EliSalt Lake City$13K
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.