Pablo Diaz-Collado, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Boston, MANPI 1043578990
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $18,891 of the $27,177 with a category attached, or 69.5%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by VB Spine LLC at 49.5% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $13,593, 8.2 times the $1,652 reported in 2019.
Across 70 payments — averaging $388.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- VB Spine LLC$13K
- Medtronic$6K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$4K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$784
- Zimvie Inc.$435
- plus $2K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$18,89170%
- Travel & lodging$3,83314%
- Food & beverage$4,45416%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| VB Spine LLC | 2 | $13,454 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 15 | $6,036 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 13 | $3,581 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 9 | $1,134 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 12 | $784 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $435 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $402 |
| Stryker | 5 | $345 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $341 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $141 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $127 |
| Kairos Surgical Inc | 1 | $126 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $106 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $21 |
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$13,221
- O-ARM$4,050
- Other - Miscellaneous$2,955
- O-ARM-ST$1,620
- EXPEDIUM$990
- Xvision$714
- Spinal-Stim$466
- Virage$435
- ROI-A$435
- Mobi-C$435
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$233
- UNID_PASS$162
- Cervical-STIM$153
- YUKON$149
- MESA$149
- FIBERGRAFT BG Morsels$146
- aprevo$141
- ViviGen$140
- MACI$127
- iFuse Implant$124
How this compares
$27,177 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 28 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Massachusetts.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 37 | $356 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 37 | $218 |
| Methocarbamol | 22 | $128 |
| Pregabalin | 11 | $119 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 18 | $101 |
| Prednisone | 14 | $35 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Boston
- Chadi TannouryBoston$81K
- Jason PittmanBoston$70K
- Taryn LeroyBoston$36K
- Sapan GandhiBoston$21K
- Frank PedlowBoston$3K
- Melvin MakhniBoston$3K
- Jason BesseyBoston$3K
- Paul GlazerChestnut Hill$2.1M
- Raymond HwangChestnut Hill$1.1M
- Robert BancoWellesley Hills$661K
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.