Phillip Kravetz, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Cullman, ALNPI 1881660264
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $179,710 of the $223,913 with a category attached, or 80.3%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Precision Spine, Inc. at 54.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $67,726, 2.3 times the $29,112 reported in 2019.
Across 161 payments — averaging $1390.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Precision Spine, Inc.$123K
- Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC$63K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$21K
- Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc.$9K
- Curiteva, Inc.$3K
- Geistlich Pharma, North America, Inc.$2K
- plus $3K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$179,71080%
- Consulting fees$34,96116%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,4381%
- Travel & lodging$1,3461%
- Food & beverage$6,4583%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 45 | $122,844 |
| Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC | 6 | $63,215 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 40 | $21,331 |
| Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc. | 8 | $9,038 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 3 | $2,547 |
| Geistlich Pharma, North America, Inc. | 2 | $1,514 |
| Stryker | 21 | $1,056 |
| Abbott | 12 | $675 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 4 | $422 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 5 | $404 |
| Nexxt Spine LLC | 3 | $229 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 1 | $139 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $138 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $85 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 2 | $72 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $47 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $21 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $14 |
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.
- REFORM TI CT MODULAR MIS PEDICLE SCREW SYSTEM$79,427
- SURELOK MIS 3L$68,372
- MIS 3L$28,712
- FORZA$11,763
- FORZA PTC Spacer System$7,255
- FORZA PEEK Spacer System$7,255
- MIS$5,700
- SureLock$4,500
- FORZA XP Expandable Spacer System$2,684
- Physio-Stim$1,509
- Vault C$693
- M6-C$612
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$418
- Medical Device$295
- Pulse$194
- Nexxt Spine Product Portfolio$143
- ARIA$140
- ProLift$139
- ProLift Lateral$139
- TruLift$139
How this compares
$223,913 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 20 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Alabama.
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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.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Cullman
- Javier RetoHuntsville$768K
- Timothy HoltMontgomery$478K
- Timothy BassettTuscaloosa$291K
- Charles GordonDaphne$208K
- Larry ParkerHuntsville$136K
- Todd VolkmanMobile$34K
- Bendt PetersenMobile$30K
- James WestMobile$25K
- Asra ToobaieMobile$9K
- Morris SeymourHuntsville$9K
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.