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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $18,957 in general payments to Mark Kerner, MD across 269 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 Kerner, 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 Kerner, 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 Kerner, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Suffolk, VANPI 1871516708

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (38.3%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Spineology Inc. at 46.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $9,161, 7.2 times the $1,274 reported in 2019.

$18,957in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 269 payments — averaging $70.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Spineology Inc.$9K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$3K
Stryker$2K
Medtronic$1K
Globus Medical$671
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$621
plus $2K from 16 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$2,50013%
Speaking & faculty fees$3,75020%
Travel & lodging$5,45029%
Food & beverage$7,25738%

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
Spineology Inc.	8	$8,859
Alphatec Spine, Inc	10	$3,234
Stryker	96	$2,359
Medtronic(2 entities)	53	$1,108
Globus Medical(2 entities)	21	$671
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	11	$621
Abbott	21	$357
Johnson & Johnson	12	$296
Si-bone, Inc.	7	$220
Centinel Spine, LLC	5	$176
Boston Scientific	4	$157
Cerapedics Inc.	3	$155
Zimmer Biomet	1	$150
Nevro Corp.	4	$137
VB Spine LLC	2	$82
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.	3	$82
7d Surgical ULC	1	$80
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	1	$72
Amgen	3	$61
Reddress USA, Inc.	1	$28
Medacta USA, Inc.	1	$26
Merck	1	$24

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.

OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$8,835
Other - Miscellaneous$2,657
CAVUX Cervical Cage$320
DTRAX Spinal System$320
ALLY Bone Screw$320
BIOLOGIX Allograft Bone$320
ALIF$220
LIF$189
EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$162
TRITANIUM$154
Persona$150
ANCHOR C$138
ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$130
INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$130
INTELLIS$120
GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$112
CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$105
ALIF PLATE$101

How this compares

$18,957 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 43 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$300,850

Medicare patients

515

Services billed

1,701

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
Pregabalin	61	$1,644
Gabapentin	147	$1,242
Oxycodone Hcl	141	$605
Topiramate	68	$525
Meloxicam	175	$360
Methylprednisolone	50	$305
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	16	$100
Tizanidine Hcl	11	$96
Baclofen	15	$90
Hydromorphone Hcl	18	$77
Cephalexin	12	$62
Tramadol Hcl	18	$18

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Suffolk

Jed VanichkachornRichmond$2.3M
Christopher GoodReston$1.7M
John SimpsonRichmond$880K
Colin HainesReston$700K
Ehsan JaziniReston$502K
Francis ShenCharlottesville$432K
Jeffrey CarlsonNewport News$295K
Thomas SciosciaRichmond$274K
Thomas SullivanMidlothian$83K
Corey WallachArlington$77K

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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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