Matthew Cunningham, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · New York, NYNPI 1134321722
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,507 of the $2,138 with a category attached, or 70.5%. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 54.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,217 and has fallen 89.8% since, to $125 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in NY, where the typical reported total is $11,594.
Across 20 payments — averaging $106.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$574
- Medtronic$278
- Highridge Medical LLC$42
- EBI, LLC$41
- Novartis$19
- plus $15 from 1 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $100,541 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.
- Radius Health, Inc.$302K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,50770%
- Food & beverage$63130%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 2 | $1,169 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 8 | $574 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 6 | $278 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $42 |
| EBI, LLC | 1 | $41 |
| Novartis | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 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.
- Excelsius - GPS$1,046
- The Tether$427
- RELINE$123
How this compares
$2,138 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 161 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New York.
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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.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in New York
- Frank SchwabNew York$5.1M
- Han KimNew York$3.9M
- Todd AlbertNew York$2.7M
- Jeffrey SpivakNew York$1.3M
- Aaron BucklandNew York$1M
- Sheeraz QureshiNew York$828K
- Jeffrey GoldsteinNew York$765K
- Fabien BitanNew York$624K
- Oheneba Boachie-AdjeiNew York$313K
- Harvinder SandhuNew York$266K
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.