Michael Gerling
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1376647891
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (58.5%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus at 37.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $20,040 and has fallen 91.8% since, to $1,635 in 2025.
Across 112 payments — averaging $854.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus$36K
- Integrity Implants Inc.$30K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$11K
- Nexus Spine, LLC$7K
- Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corp.$6K
- Arthrex$1K
- plus $5K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$55,99158%
- Consulting fees$12,16213%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,2006%
- Travel & lodging$16,89218%
- Food & beverage$3,9864%
- Gifts$5031%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus | 9 | $35,730 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 31 | $29,947 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 10 | $11,187 |
| Nexus Spine, LLC | 5 | $6,908 |
| Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corp. | 3 | $5,923 |
| Arthrex | 11 | $1,454 |
| Globus Medical | 5 | $1,012 |
| Elliquence, LLC | 1 | $1,000 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 5 | $732 |
| Spineology Inc. | 3 | $501 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 15 | $408 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $146 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $138 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $128 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $122 |
| Amplify Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Royal Biologics, Inc. | 3 | $110 |
| Seapearl East, Inc | 1 | $94 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $24 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- FlareHawk$53,840
- PressOn$6,824
- ALLOGRAFT$6,500
- FORTILINK-TC TIPLUS$3,874
- FORTILINK CAGES WITH TIPLUS TECHNOLOGY$3,162
- Excelsius - GPS$770
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$418
- CervAlign Anterior Cervical Plate$337
- STREAMLINE OCT SYSTEM$149
- Fortilink-TC IBF SysteM$148
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$146
- FORTILINK-TS IBF SYSTEM$145
- Biomet SpinalPak Non-invasive Spine Fusion Stimulator System$138
- COALITION AGX$137
- FORTILINK-C TIPLUS$137
- ARAI SURGICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM$137
- FORTILINK-A IBF SYSTEM$137
- Omnia$128
- dualX$115
How this compares
$95,734 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 161 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New York.
See all orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New York →
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 12 | $261 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Brooklyn
- Raz WiniarskyBrooklyn$75K
- Dante LevenBrooklyn$36K
- Joseph PyunBrooklyn$24K
- Hansen YuanSyracuse$31.7M
- Frank SchwabNew York$5.1M
- Han KimNew York$3.9M
- Todd AlbertNew York$2.7M
- Jeffrey SpivakNew York$1.3M
- Aaron BucklandNew York$1M
- Seth NeubardtWhite Plains$902K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.