Mario Brkaric, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Lafayette, INNPI 1669428645
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $203,155 of the $261,709 with a category attached, or 77.6%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. at 46.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $74,249 and has fallen 77.2% since, to $16,954 in 2025.
Across 264 payments — averaging $991.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$121K
- Zimmer Biomet$50K
- Stryker$38K
- Xtant Medical Inc$25K
- Precision Spine, Inc.$22K
- Globus Medical$3K
- plus $3K from 13 others
Across 10 payments — averaging $11,177 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.
- Medtronic$90K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$21K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$203,15578%
- Consulting fees$41,92516%
- Travel & lodging$11,0554%
- Food & beverage$5,5472%
- Education$100%
- Gifts$180%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 65 | $121,318 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 12 | $49,519 |
| Stryker | 65 | $38,413 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 12 | $24,884 |
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 12 | $21,801 |
| Globus Medical | 17 | $2,688 |
| Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc. | 2 | $1,196 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 9 | $559 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 51 | $513 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 7 | $443 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $159 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $82 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $22 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Vertex | 1 | $14 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 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.
- FORTILINK-TS IBF SYSTEM$69,603
- Optio-C$49,519
- ALIF PLATE$21,221
- Reform HA Coated Screws$18,117
- CORTERA$17,953
- FORTILINK-TS IBF SYSTEM WITH TETRAFUSE 3D TECHNOLOGY$17,401
- LITE PLATE SYSTEM$12,193
- Reform HA Coated$3,684
- MANTIS$2,500
- ARAI SURGICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM$1,741
- COALITION AGX$1,210
- Forte$1,196
- MESA$932
- Spine$616
- Sable$389
- CAPRI$346
- YUKON$346
- VLIFT$346
- SERRATO$346
- Explorer TO$236
How this compares
$261,709 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 48 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Indiana.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 251 | $3,626 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 26 | $398 |
| Baclofen | 38 | $384 |
| Etodolac | 12 | $384 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 33 | $352 |
| Methylprednisolone | 36 | $282 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 34 | $172 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 11 | $78 |
| Prednisone | 17 | $36 |
| Diazepam | 15 | $16 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Lafayette
- John GorupLafayette$242K
- Rick SassoCarmel$1.6M
- David SchwartzIndianapolis$1.5M
- Zeshan HyderCrown Point$1.1M
- Gregory PoulterIndianapolis$995K
- Nitin KhannaMunster$702K
- Michael McMainsIndianapolis$686K
- Mohammad MajdNew Albany$504K
- Deepak ReddySouth Bend$496K
- Paul KraemerCarmel$276K
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.