Has Nicholas Renaldo, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $255,268 in general payments to Nicholas Renaldo, MD across 231 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 Nicholas Renaldo, 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 Nicholas Renaldo, 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.

Nicholas Renaldo, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Poughkeepsie, NYNPI 1750619029

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (58.7%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Precision Spine, Inc. accounts for 80.8% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $61,028 and has fallen 66.1% since, to $20,702 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$255,268in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 231 payments — averaging $1105.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Precision Spine, Inc.$206K
4web, Inc.$25K
Globus Medical$17K
Misonix Inc$2K
Medtronic$1K
Arthrex$1K
plus $3K from 12 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$149,79259%
Consulting fees$92,96136%
Travel & lodging$5,6232%
Food & beverage$6,8923%

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
Precision Spine, Inc.	56	$206,220
4web, Inc.	21	$24,706
Globus Medical(2 entities)	56	$16,895
Misonix Inc	2	$1,700
Medtronic(3 entities)	44	$1,330
Arthrex	7	$1,096
Alphatec Spine, Inc	19	$1,069
Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc.	4	$840
Boston Scientific	5	$306
Zimmer Biomet	3	$265
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	2	$187
DJO, LLC	4	$165
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$150
Dilon Technologies, Inc.	1	$148
Stryker	2	$70
Centinel Spine, LLC	1	$46
Johnson & Johnson	1	$40
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$36

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.

Reform HA Coated Pedicle Screw System$117,992
REFORM MIDLINE CORTICAL SCREW SYSTEM$91,169
SLIMPLICITY PLUS ANTERIOR CERVICAL PLATING SYSTEM$91,169
SURE-LOK EXTENDED TAB PEDICLE SCREW SYSTEM$91,169
MD Max ULIF$59,006
Reform HA Coated Pedical Screw System$37,828
REFORM MIDLINE CORTICAL$37,828
REFORM TI HA COATED PEDICLE SCREW SYSTEM$37,828
Slimplicity Anterior Cervical Plate Plus$37,828
Sure-Lok Percutaneous Pedicale Screw System$28,051
SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$24,391
MD Max Screws$23,112
Reform HA Coated Screws$20,493
SURE-LOK PERCUTANEOUS PEDICLE SCREW SYSTEM$9,777
TLIF$8,704
XLIF$7,364
REFORM TI HA COATED PEDICLE SCREW$5,339
Vault C$5,091
REFORM HA COATED PEDICLE SCREW SYS$4,998
MAS TLIF RETRACTOR$4,750

How this compares

$255,268 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 161 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$273,422

Medicare patients

596

Services billed

1,697

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
Meloxicam	379	$972
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	162	$573
Methylprednisolone	68	$510
Gabapentin	120	$484
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	37	$281
Tramadol Hcl	94	$249
Mupirocin	45	$234
Naproxen	21	$101
Oxycodone Hcl	18	$54
Diazepam	16	$40

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Poughkeepsie

Richard PerkinsPoughkeepsie$67K
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
Sheeraz QureshiNew York$828K
Jeffrey GoldsteinNew York$765K

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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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