Michael Faloon
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Ridgewood, NJNPI 1043420136
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (49.3%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 76.1% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $10,733 and has fallen 94.7% since, to $569 in 2025.
Across 145 payments — averaging $200.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$22K
- Medtronic$2K
- Centinel Spine, LLC$2K
- Globus Medical$1K
- Integrity Implants Inc.$798
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$321
- plus $1K from 9 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $1684.83 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.
- Stryker$4K
- Centinel Spine, LLC$1K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$14,35049%
- Travel & lodging$2,4248%
- Food & beverage$12,30342%
- Gifts$440%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 72 | $22,166 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 21 | $1,806 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 14 | $1,571 |
| Globus Medical | 15 | $1,276 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 6 | $798 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 4 | $321 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $276 |
| Royal Biologics, Inc. | 3 | $218 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus | 1 | $166 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $140 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $116 |
| Choice Spine, LLC | 1 | $113 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $41 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $28 |
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.
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$14,475
- MESA$7,200
- NIAGARA LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$7,150
- EVEREST$3,600
- TRITANIUM$2,434
- PRODISC C VIVO$937
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$860
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$811
- XLIF$693
- MazorX - Renaissance$423
- SERRATO$343
- AVS ANCHOR-L$327
- OASYS$262
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$231
- PYRENEES CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$175
- NONE$169
- N/A$161
- BIO4$159
- INVICTUS OPEN$156
- XIA$153
How this compares
$29,121 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 84 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New Jersey.
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Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $12 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Ridgewood
- Louis AmorosaRidgewood$3K
- Kristen RadcliffSomers Point$390K
- James SanfilippoMoorestown$380K
- Justin KubeckToms River$309K
- Ramil BhatnagarManasquan$301K
- Jason LowensteinMorristown$294K
- Steven KirshnerMarlton$226K
- Gordon DonaldEatontown$167K
- Grigory GoldbergOcean$161K
- Ki HwangWayne$147K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.