Mark Eskander, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Wilmington, DENPI 1285694935
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 88 payments — averaging $2505.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$188K
- Stryker$21K
- VB Spine LLC$6K
- 4web, Inc.$3K
- The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education$2K
- Cerapedics Inc.$326
- plus $838 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$32,05592%
- Food & beverage$2,9628%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 22 | $188,375 |
| Stryker | 34 | $20,864 |
| VB Spine LLC | 5 | $5,937 |
| 4web, Inc. | 1 | $2,500 |
| The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education | 2 | $1,634 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $326 |
| Abbott | 3 | $158 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $127 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $110 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $66 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 3 | $56 |
| Vertex | 3 | $54 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $53 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $38 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- MONTEREY AL$17,189
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$4,550
- SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$2,500
- SERRATO$2,297
- AERO$2,125
- Enza-A$1,600
- Enza$1,600
- Spira$1,600
- nanoLOCK-C$1,350
- Endoskeleton-C$540
- nanoLOCK-L$540
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$326
- BIO DBM$289
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$289
- XIA 3$160
- TRITANIUM$160
- ES2 SPINAL SYSTEM$160
- MagnetOs$127
- N/A$117
- UNID_PASS$109
How this compares
Too few orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Delawareto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tizanidine Hcl | 140 | $1,711 |
| Gabapentin | 131 | $1,336 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 47 | $776 |
| Lidocaine | 14 | $674 |
| Methylprednisolone | 92 | $596 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 81 | $493 |
| Meloxicam | 106 | $478 |
| Pregabalin | 11 | $253 |
| Mupirocin | 29 | $122 |
| Prednisone | 33 | $113 |
| Ibuprofen | 12 | $105 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 24 | $78 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 33 | $75 |
| Diazepam | 33 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Wilmington
- Kalin FisherNewark$30K
- Nicholas MinissaleLewes$9K
- Stephen MaloneDover$5K
- William PfaffRehoboth Beach$4K
- James ZaslavskyNewark$1K
- Bruce RudinNewark$814
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.