Murray Spruiell, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Huntsville, ALNPI 1700143856
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,867 of the $5,549 with a category attached, or 69.7%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 37.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,619 and has fallen 76.1% since, to $625 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in AL, where the typical reported total is $8,697.
Across 101 payments — averaging $54.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$500
- Arthrex$494
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$219
- Si-bone, Inc.$194
- plus $544 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,63529%
- Food & beverage$3,86770%
- Gifts$481%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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) | 37 | $2,106 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 9 | $1,493 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $500 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $494 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 6 | $219 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 10 | $194 |
| Abbott | 2 | $181 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $116 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 3 | $67 |
| Amgen | 4 | $49 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $34 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $20 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $13 |
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.
- VIPER$1,398
- CONCORDE$1,285
- XLIF$327
- TLIF$163
- PROCLAIM$162
- Cervical-Stim Osteogenesis Stimulator$135
- Spinal-Stim Osteogenesis Stimulator$135
- Excelsius3D Imaging System$128
- RELINE$127
- Osteocel$116
How this compares
$5,549 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 20 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Alabama.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 109 | $817 |
| Gabapentin | 66 | $623 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 125 | $445 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 58 | $371 |
| Methocarbamol | 37 | $351 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 33 | $310 |
| Celecoxib | 13 | $198 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 15 | $178 |
| Meloxicam | 21 | $77 |
| Lorazepam | 23 | $21 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Huntsville
- Javier RetoHuntsville$768K
- Larry ParkerHuntsville$136K
- Morris SeymourHuntsville$9K
- Franklin SammonsHuntsville$3K
- John Rodriguez-FeoHuntsville$2K
- Timothy HoltMontgomery$478K
- Timothy BassettTuscaloosa$291K
- Phillip KravetzCullman$224K
- Charles GordonDaphne$208K
- Todd VolkmanMobile$34K
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.