Rebecca Kuo, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Joliet, ILNPI 1306908231
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (45.6%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 44 manufacturers reported payments, led by Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation at 28.4% of the total.
Across 335 payments — averaging $292.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$28K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$26K
- Life Spine, Inc.$12K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$10K
- Si-bone, Inc.$6K
- Innovasis Inc$4K
- plus $11K from 38 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$11,61512%
- Consulting fees$44,73846%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1370%
- Travel & lodging$23,78924%
- Food & beverage$17,27218%
- Education$3370%
- Entertainment$1480%
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.
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$12,602
- MYSPINE$9,960
- MISCELLANEOUS$7,909
- OsteoStrand$5,000
- Accell Evo3$5,000
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$3,300
- Mariner MIS$2,041
- Reef TA$1,852
- Regatta$1,792
- Daytona$1,354
- Mariner MIS TLIF Retractor$1,250
- NorthStar$1,248
- Meridian$1,185
- Shoreline ASC$1,061
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$1,018
- Explorer TO$882
- Mariner MCT$875
- Admiral$875
- Shoreline ACS$791
- Erisma-LP$686
How this compares
$98,036 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 67 | $992 |
| Gabapentin | 63 | $544 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 85 | $446 |
| Celecoxib | 22 | $406 |
| Pregabalin | 17 | $275 |
| Meloxicam | 26 | $177 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 32 | $131 |
| Naproxen | 12 | $55 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Joliet
- Frank PhillipsChicago$3.9M
- Kern SinghChicago$1.3M
- Christopher DewaldChicago$1.2M
- P Ronjon PaulNaperville$908K
- Philip MeinhardtQuincy$507K
- Anis MekhailPalos Heights$498K
- Matthew ColmanChicago$334K
- Mir AliMorris$329K
- Krzysztof SiemionowHomer Glen$290K
- Arash SayariChicago$174K
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.