Raymond Walkup
Neurological Surgery · Atlanta, GANPI 1326224007
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $53,034 of the $66,664 with a category attached, or 79.6%. Stryker accounts for 75.0% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $14,563 and has fallen 50.5% since, to $7,215 in 2025.
Across 130 payments — averaging $512.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$50K
- Globus Medical$6K
- VB Spine LLC$5K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$3K
- Medtronic$920
- Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC$918
- plus $1K from 10 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $1500.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$2K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$53,03480%
- Consulting fees$6001%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,5307%
- Travel & lodging$3,9966%
- Food & beverage$4,5047%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 38 | $50,016 |
| Globus Medical | 17 | $6,087 |
| VB Spine LLC | 3 | $5,099 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 20 | $2,582 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 11 | $920 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 9 | $918 |
| Boston Scientific | 13 | $334 |
| Nevro Corp. | 5 | $332 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 7 | $212 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $24 |
| Abbott | 1 | $21 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Spineology Inc. | 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.
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$42,257
- CASCADIA$10,901
- EXCELSIUS$2,500
- Intracept$2,373
- Excelsius - GPS$2,140
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$989
- ACTIVL$684
- SURPASS EVOLVE$600
- CLYDESDALE PTC SPINAL SYSTEM$229
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$180
- MOJAVE$174
- CHESAPEAKE STABILIZATION SYSTEM$161
- Omnia$153
- CHESAPEAKE$149
- DYNATRAN$147
- RAVINE LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$145
- NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$138
- INTELLIS$136
- Accurian$131
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$121
How this compares
$66,664 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 201 neurological surgery providers in Georgia.
Other neurological surgery in Atlanta
- Regis HaidAtlanta$25.5M
- Thomas MorrisonAtlanta$2.8M
- Christopher TomarasAtlanta$1.5M
- Daniel RefaiAtlanta$1.2M
- Gerald RodtsAtlanta$1.2M
- James RobinsonAtlanta$993K
- Michele JohnsonAtlanta$540K
- David McCrackenAtlanta$425K
- Robert GrossAtlanta$315K
- Kaveh KhajaviAtlanta$225K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.