Paul Celestre, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Louisville, KYNPI 1366626558
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $43,800 of the $61,310 with a category attached, or 71.4%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Spine Wave, Inc. at 58.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $22,717, 5.3 times the $4,265 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in KY, where the typical reported total is $61,310.
Across 194 payments — averaging $316.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spine Wave, Inc.$36K
- Centinel Spine, LLC$18K
- Medtronic$5K
- Globus Medical$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$824
- Novapproach Spine, LLC$132
- plus $396 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$43,80071%
- Travel & lodging$8,11713%
- Food & beverage$9,34015%
- Education$530%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 71 | $35,618 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 17 | $18,094 |
| Medtronic | 75 | $4,955 |
| Globus Medical | 11 | $1,291 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $824 |
| Novapproach Spine, LLC | 1 | $132 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $110 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $82 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 2 | $45 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Kerecis Limited | 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.
- PRODISC L$17,786
- EXCEED BIPLANAR EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$7,750
- Spinal Implants$3,379
- SALVO SPINE SYSTEM$3,000
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$2,108
- TESTA TP PIVOTING SPACER SYSTEM$1,000
- UNID_PASS$500
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$469
- SPINAL IMPLANT$428
- Excelsius - GPS$403
- SPINE PRODUCT$315
- FIBERGRAFT BG Morsels$222
- Vivigen MIS Delivery System$136
- OneLIF$132
- Direct Look$128
- MOUNTAINEER$124
- RELINE$121
- GRAFTONAND GRAFTON PLUSDEMINERALIZED BONE MATRIX (DBM)$120
- PRODISC C VIVO$119
- INVICTUS OPEN$110
How this compares
$61,310 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 29 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Kentucky.
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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 | 40 | $313 |
| Methocarbamol | 24 | $179 |
| Pregabalin | 11 | $137 |
| Meloxicam | 16 | $56 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Louisville
- Jeffery GumLouisville$3.5M
- Mladen DjurasovicLouisville$3.1M
- Roger OwensLouisville$1.3M
- Charles CrawfordLouisville$836K
- Joseph LarattaLouisville$819K
- Venu VemuriLouisville$796K
- Kathryn McCarthy MulloolyLouisville$426K
- John DimarLouisville$266K
- Steven GlassmanLouisville$249K
- John JohnsonLouisville$247K
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.