Qasim Zaidi, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Saint Louis, MONPI 1487099313
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,576 of the $1,841 with a category attached, or 85.6%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zavation Medical Products, LLC at 30.7% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in MO, where the typical reported total is $12,644.
Across 42 payments — averaging $43.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zavation Medical Products, LLC$566
- Johnson & Johnson$306
- Stryker$289
- Spine Wave, Inc.$174
- Si-bone, Inc.$151
- Centinel Spine, LLC$114
- plus $241 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,57686%
- Entertainment$26514%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zavation Medical Products, LLC | 6 | $566 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 15 | $306 |
| Stryker | 4 | $289 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 2 | $174 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $151 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $114 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $93 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 1 | $35 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $32 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $23 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Spineology Inc. | 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.
How this compares
$1,841 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 53 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Missouri.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tizanidine Hcl | 442 | $9,912 |
| Gabapentin | 306 | $2,967 |
| Methylprednisolone | 390 | $2,439 |
| Celecoxib | 58 | $1,361 |
| Meloxicam | 675 | $1,200 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 91 | $1,029 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 113 | $892 |
| Methocarbamol | 18 | $220 |
| Diazepam | 64 | $212 |
| Pregabalin | 13 | $188 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 17 | $186 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 38 | $140 |
| Alprazolam | 15 | $17 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Saint Louis
- Munish GuptaSaint Louis$1M
- Jacob BuchowskiSaint Louis$658K
- Brian NeumanSaint Louis$106K
- R Adams CowleySaint Louis$53K
- Michael ReiterSaint Louis$37K
- Mark LambrechtsSaint Louis$37K
- Nicholas PallottaSaint Louis$21K
- Matthew GoodwinSaint Louis$20K
- John ClohisySaint Louis$19K
- Diana DoulehSaint Louis$18K
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.