Loubert Suddaby, MD
Neurological Surgery · Hamburg, NYNPI 1609869783
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $296,225 of the $322,973 with a category attached, or 91.7%. Stryker accounts for 85.3% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $74,400 and has fallen 72.9% since, to $20,161 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 480 payments — averaging $672.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$276K
- VB Spine LLC$13K
- Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc.$12K
- Abbott$8K
- Globus Medical$7K
- Bacterin International Inc$3K
- plus $3K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$296,22592%
- Consulting fees$12,4004%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,2751%
- Travel & lodging$1,2880%
- Food & beverage$9,7853%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 26 | $275,515 |
| VB Spine LLC | 3 | $13,416 |
| Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $12,400 |
| Abbott | 395 | $8,433 |
| Globus Medical | 10 | $7,294 |
| Bacterin International Inc | 1 | $3,275 |
| Arthrex | 7 | $1,096 |
| Prodigy Surgical Distribution, Inc. | 2 | $515 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $291 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $196 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $144 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $119 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $107 |
| Nevro Corp. | 5 | $74 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $18 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Amgen | 1 | $12 |
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.
- SAHARA STABILIZATION SYSTEM$174,167
- SAHARA$114,764
- UNIFY$7,294
- Proclaim DRG IPG$624
- OCTRODE$558
- PENTA$517
- Neuromodulation Dspsbls and Accs$458
- PROCLAIM$447
- CODMAN HAKIM PRECISION VALVE$241
- CODMAN CERTAS$241
- ETERNA$188
- IonicRF$160
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$128
- Spinal-Stim$125
- CUSA CLARITY$117
- DURAGEN$117
- DURASEAL EXACT$117
How this compares
$322,973 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 446 neurological surgery providers in New York.
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 | 65 | $820 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 20 | $449 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 28 | $395 |
| Gabapentin | 31 | $390 |
| Ibuprofen | 24 | $279 |
| Dexamethasone | 28 | $168 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 46 | $124 |
| Methylprednisolone | 11 | $87 |
| Famotidine | 21 | $84 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Hamburg
- Ryan DenhaeseWilliamsville$1.9M
- J MoccoNew York$1.6M
- Adnan SiddiquiWilliamsville$1.5M
- Leo HopkinsBuffalo$1.2M
- Aziz Basem QandahNew Hartford$1.1M
- Alejandro BerensteinNew York$1.1M
- Darryl LauNew York$915K
- Mark BilskyNew York$903K
- John PollinaWilliamsville$661K
- Michael GroffRochester$559K
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.