Philip Meinhardt, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Quincy, ILNPI 1356592919
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by ownership interests: $374,998 of the $507,133 with a category attached, or 73.9%. Kalitec Direct LLC accounts for 99.1% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $151,124 and has fallen 94.9% since, to $7,729 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in IL 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.
Across 74 payments — averaging $6853.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Kalitec Direct LLC$503K
- Nevro Corp.$2K
- Curiteva, Inc.$566
- Boston Scientific$329
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$310
- Medtronic$240
- plus $838 from 14 others
Across 11 payments — averaging $27,949 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Kalitec Direct LLC$307K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$127,64525%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,0000%
- Travel & lodging$9170%
- Food & beverage$2,5741%
- Ownership interest$374,99874%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kalitec Direct LLC | 12 | $502,804 |
| Nevro Corp. | 6 | $2,046 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 1 | $566 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $329 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 8 | $310 |
| Medtronic | 10 | $240 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 7 | $208 |
| Stryker | 3 | $124 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| MVP Orthopedics Inc | 3 | $83 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $83 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $53 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $49 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $18 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 2 | $17 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $16 |
| Abbott | 1 | $15 |
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.
- CosmoLock$109,500
- Intess Cervical Cage$58,195
- CosmoLock, Intess-C$20,175
- Omnia$1,929
- Intracept$397
How this compares
$507,133 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 93 | $1,496 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 143 | $1,076 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 87 | $629 |
| Methylprednisolone | 85 | $436 |
| Methocarbamol | 56 | $321 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 27 | $54 |
| Diazepam | 11 | $9 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Quincy
- Frank PhillipsChicago$3.9M
- Kern SinghChicago$1.3M
- Christopher DewaldChicago$1.2M
- P Ronjon PaulNaperville$908K
- Anis MekhailPalos Heights$498K
- Matthew ColmanChicago$334K
- Mir AliMorris$329K
- Krzysztof SiemionowHomer Glen$290K
- Arash SayariChicago$174K
- Vivek MohanSchaumburg$168K
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.