Lukas Zebala, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Skokie, ILNPI 1780779124
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alphatec Spine, Inc at 34.9% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in IL, where the typical reported total is $12,158.
Across 98 payments — averaging $99.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$3K
- Globus Medical$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$403
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$198
- plus $578 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,69859%
- Food & beverage$4,01041%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 7 | $3,391 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 21 | $2,755 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 33 | $1,214 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $1,170 |
| Medtronic | 15 | $403 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $198 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Prosidyan, Inc | 1 | $91 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $64 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $56 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $42 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 2 | $34 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $24 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $20 |
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.
- Other - Miscellaneous$2,383
- Velys$1,365
- ALIF$835
- Excelsius - GPS$595
- Pulse$587
- LIF$402
- Barricaid Annular Closure Device$198
- COLONIAL$151
- XLIF$104
How this compares
$9,708 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Illinois.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 28 | $478 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Skokie
- Dustin MasselSkokie$27K
- Frank PhillipsChicago$3.9M
- Kern SinghChicago$1.3M
- Christopher DewaldChicago$1.2M
- P Ronjon PaulNaperville$908K
- Philip MeinhardtQuincy$507K
- Anis MekhailPalos Heights$498K
- Matthew ColmanChicago$334K
- Mir AliMorris$329K
- Krzysztof SiemionowHomer Glen$290K
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.