Richard Ozuna, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Peabody, MANPI 1104804665
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $122,100 of the $197,726 with a category attached, or 61.8%. 36 manufacturers reported payments, led by Orthofix Medical, Inc. at 56.3% of the total.
Across 194 payments — averaging $1019.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$111K
- Spineology Inc.$24K
- Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC$19K
- Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus$12K
- Choice Spine, LLC$11K
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$8K
- plus $12K from 30 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $2800.00 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.
- Spineology Inc.$3K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$122,10062%
- Consulting fees$48,25724%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,8752%
- Travel & lodging$8,8844%
- Food & beverage$11,2106%
- Education$2,4001%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 53 | $111,363 |
| Spineology Inc. | 18 | $24,487 |
| Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC | 9 | $19,198 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus | 9 | $12,055 |
| Choice Spine, LLC | 5 | $10,554 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 19 | $8,317 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 9 | $2,679 |
| Kairos Surgical Inc | 2 | $2,415 |
| VB Spine LLC | 5 | $957 |
| Stryker | 9 | $931 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $750 |
| Globus Medical | 9 | $728 |
| Ossdsign USA Incorporated | 9 | $681 |
| Abbott | 7 | $445 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $384 |
| Republic Spine | 1 | $249 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $236 |
| Biedermann Motech, Inc. | 1 | $184 |
| Innovasis Inc | 2 | $179 |
| Acuity Surgical Devices, LLC | 1 | $155 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $151 |
| Amplify Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 1 | $85 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $80 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $60 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $51 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $32 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $28 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $25 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $13 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $10 |
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.
- PILLAR SA$63,336
- PILLAR SA PTC Spacer System$31,777
- PILLAR SA PEEK Spacer System$31,777
- Silverbolt$10,201
- FlareHawk$10,125
- Physio-Stim$9,826
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$8,207
- OptiMesh IDE Study$8,201
- OptiMesh Interbody Fusion System$8,015
- Medical Devices$6,086
- 3 DEGREE$3,571
- 3-Degrees Anterior Cervical Plating (ACP) System$2,540
- Medical Device$2,277
- ProLift Micro Tube Access$2,220
- AVATAR MINIMALLY INVASIVE SPINAL SYSTEM$2,079
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,213
- Timberline$750
- Virage$750
- Excelsius Robotics System$547
- OssDsign Catalyst$468
How this compares
$197,726 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 28 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Massachusetts.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisone | 46 | $202 |
| Gabapentin | 13 | $113 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Peabody
- Jeremy ShorePeabody$232K
- Paul GlazerChestnut Hill$2.1M
- Raymond HwangChestnut Hill$1.1M
- Robert BancoWellesley Hills$661K
- Mitchell HardenbrookHopedale$542K
- Steven LeckiePlymouth$316K
- Nikhil ThakurNorth Andover$118K
- Chadi TannouryBoston$81K
- Bryce BasquesRaynham$72K
- Jason PittmanBoston$70K
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.