Has Mark Frenkel, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $37,550 in general payments to Mark Frenkel, MD across 125 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Mark Frenkel, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Mark Frenkel, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Mark Frenkel, MD

Neurological Surgery · Naples, FLNPI 1164869178

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $28,850 of the $37,550 with a category attached, or 76.8%. Spine Wave, Inc. accounts for 73.7% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $13,490 and has fallen 76.0% since, to $3,232 in 2025.

$37,550in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 125 payments — averaging $300.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Spine Wave, Inc.$28K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$5K
Omnia Medical, LLC$2K
Globus Medical$470
Cerapedics Inc.$264
Arthrex$226
plus $2K from 19 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$28,85077%
Travel & lodging$4,59412%
Food & beverage$4,04111%
Education$650%

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
Spine Wave, Inc.	43	$27,672
Alphatec Spine, Inc	9	$5,099
Omnia Medical, LLC	1	$2,000
Globus Medical	12	$470
Cerapedics Inc.	7	$264
Arthrex	14	$226
Nevro Corp.	7	$225
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	2	$190
CSL Behring	2	$189
Medtronic	2	$155
Novocure Inc.	1	$150
Johnson & Johnson	6	$137
Radius Health, Inc.	2	$135
Stryker	3	$116
Carlsmed, Inc.	3	$96
Insightec,inc	1	$86
Intrinsic Therapeutics	1	$85
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$66
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	1	$38
Olympus America Inc.	1	$38
UCB, Inc.	2	$35
Lundbeck LLC	1	$24
Spinal Surgical Strategies, Inc.	1	$22
Vertos Medical, Inc.	1	$20
Lilly USA, LLC	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.

SALVO SPINE SYSTEM$9,802
Other - Miscellaneous$4,569
I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$596
SPINAL IMPLANT$278
INVICTUS OPEN$215
Optune$150
TLX$139
TLIF$139
ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$138
Pulse$122
Tymlos$113

How this compares

$37,550 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 556 neurological surgery providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$873,854

Medicare patients

635

Services billed

2,445

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	137	$1,226
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	68	$938
Methylprednisolone	131	$703
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	35	$260
Gabapentin	23	$217
Tramadol Hcl	52	$144
Methocarbamol	20	$113
Diazepam	32	$94
Alprazolam	22	$22
Lorazepam	14	$16

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Naples

Benjamin DittyNaples$557K
Gary ColonNaples$315K
Stephen ParkerJacksonville$18.7M
Eric PetersonMiami$10.1M
Brian SnellingBoca Raton$10M
Kim ManwaringOrlando$5M
Paul SawinWinter Park$3M
John MainOcala$2.8M
Michael WangMiami$2.2M
Andrew CannestraJacksonville$1.6M

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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.

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