Paul Gause, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Scottsdale, AZNPI 1871708255
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 515 payments — averaging $1191.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$235K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$113K
- Medtronic$105K
- Globus Medical$72K
- The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education$66K
- Cerapedics Inc.$10K
- plus $12K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$380,31862%
- Consulting fees$70,00611%
- Speaking & faculty fees$102,99417%
- Travel & lodging$41,3757%
- Food & beverage$19,1813%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 26 | $235,422 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 56 | $113,107 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 190 | $105,241 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 153 | $71,510 |
| The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education | 21 | $65,920 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 21 | $10,386 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 18 | $8,987 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 12 | $1,074 |
| Pinnacle Transplant Technologies, LLC | 2 | $872 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 3 | $488 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 2 | $225 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $141 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| Spineology Inc. | 2 | $123 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $70 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $54 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $49 |
| 4web, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Stryker | 1 | $26 |
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.
- Mariner MIS$230,024
- Physio-Stim$93,211
- Spira$28,827
- O-ARM-ST$19,699
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$18,781
- ALIF Instruments (Universal)$17,770
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$16,357
- Mariner$15,635
- Spira-O$15,393
- Pulse$15,243
- ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$14,504
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$12,057
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$10,853
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$10,150
- RISE$8,181
- ELSA$8,181
- iFuse Implant$8,006
- XLIF$7,812
- NorthStar$7,172
- Shoreline ASC$7,000
How this compares
$613,874 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 377 orthopaedic surgery providers in Arizona.
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 | 82 | $949 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 20 | $421 |
| Celecoxib | 27 | $296 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 19 | $183 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 20 | $168 |
| Pregabalin | 13 | $139 |
| Methylprednisolone | 18 | $137 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 11 | $121 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 14 | $119 |
| Meloxicam | 17 | $29 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Scottsdale
- Bertrand KaperScottsdale$567K
- David CamarataScottsdale$411K
- David BailieScottsdale$253K
- Shane MartinScottsdale$244K
- Sherwood DuhonScottsdale$229K
- John BradwayScottsdale$219K
- Krishna MallikScottsdale$79K
- Timothy KavanaughScottsdale$71K
- Laura ProkuskiScottsdale$58K
- Paul GoodwynScottsdale$56K
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.