Louis Nkrumah
Neurological Surgery · New Hyde Park, NYNPI 1598923773
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (58.1%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 28.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,397 and has fallen 51.6% since, to $1,643 in 2025.
Across 110 payments — averaging $89.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$3K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$3K
- Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corp.$1K
- OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$845
- Si-bone, Inc.$594
- Medtronic$427
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,70858%
- Food & beverage$3,26833%
- Education$8459%
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) | 20 | $2,783 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 8 | $2,655 |
| Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corp. | 2 | $1,394 |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 40 | $845 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 7 | $594 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $427 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 4 | $233 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $232 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $145 |
| Abbott | 1 | $120 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Amgen | 4 | $85 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $50 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 2 | $41 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $27 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $22 |
| Merck | 1 | $20 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $18 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Excelsius - GPS$1,642
- Spine Endoscopy$1,394
- Mariner Deformity$788
- iFuse Implant$493
- Senza$286
- Spinal-Stim$266
- Mobi-C$162
- Simplify Cervical Artificial Disc$155
- Intracept$145
- ELSA$139
- XLIF$139
- MARS$123
- Proclaim IPG$120
- CD HORIZON$117
- PRESTIGE$114
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$109
How this compares
$9,820 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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.
Other neurological surgery in New Hyde Park
- 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.