P Ronjon Paul, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Naperville, ILNPI 1861460693
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $819,961 of the $908,078 with a category attached, or 90.3%. Globus Medical accounts for 99.9% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $275,004 and has fallen 78.3% since, to $59,687 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 373 payments — averaging $2434.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$908K
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$162
- Medtronic$156
- Si-bone, Inc.$78
- Amgen$45
- Cerapedics Inc.$24
Across 50 payments — averaging $2918.69 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.
- Globus Medical$146K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$819,96190%
- Consulting fees$49,1255%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,1620%
- Travel & lodging$23,4513%
- Food & beverage$11,3791%
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) | 367 | $907,613 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $162 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $156 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $78 |
| Amgen | 2 | $45 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $24 |
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.
- TLIF$723,601
- MaXcess$499,786
- Modulus$497,114
- COHERE$166,934
- PLIF$100,000
- Pulse$54,883
- NVM5$30,639
- Halo$30,639
- CoRoent$18,275
- XLIF$17,755
- FORGE Oblique$2,560
- ACP$1,488
- AttraX$1,270
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$914
- ALIF$567
- Graft Delivery System$317
- Osteocel$193
- Archon$169
- TLX$160
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$156
How this compares
$908,078 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Illinois.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 98 | $503 |
| Gabapentin | 27 | $184 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 14 | $72 |
| Mupirocin | 11 | $66 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 25 | $54 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Naperville
- Anthony RinellaNaperville$18K
- Jimmy ZhuNaperville$15K
- Frank PhillipsChicago$3.9M
- Kern SinghChicago$1.3M
- Christopher DewaldChicago$1.2M
- Philip MeinhardtQuincy$507K
- Anis MekhailPalos Heights$498K
- Matthew ColmanChicago$334K
- Mir AliMorris$329K
- Krzysztof SiemionowHomer Glen$290K
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.