Richard Perkins, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Poughkeepsie, NYNPI 1881612125
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $49,943 of the $67,347 with a category attached, or 74.2%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education at 55.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $25,365 and has fallen 90.6% since, to $2,385 in 2025.
Across 94 payments — averaging $716.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education$37K
- Camber Spine Technologies LLC$14K
- Philadelphia Medical Management Company LLC$11K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- Cerapedics Inc.$781
- plus $549 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$49,94374%
- Consulting fees$11,43517%
- Travel & lodging$9221%
- Food & beverage$4,3927%
- Education$1240%
- Gifts$5301%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education | 26 | $37,452 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 10 | $14,242 |
| Philadelphia Medical Management Company LLC | 2 | $11,368 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $1,922 |
| Medtronic(3 entities) | 33 | $1,031 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 11 | $781 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 2 | $190 |
| DJO, LLC | 4 | $166 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $62 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $60 |
| Stryker | 1 | $53 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals 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
$67,347 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 161 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New York.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 55 | $382 |
| Baclofen | 42 | $127 |
| Mupirocin | 21 | $111 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 20 | $71 |
| Meloxicam | 20 | $57 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 12 | $39 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 17 | $26 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Poughkeepsie
- Nicholas RenaldoPoughkeepsie$255K
- Hansen YuanSyracuse$31.7M
- Frank SchwabNew York$5.1M
- Han KimNew York$3.9M
- Todd AlbertNew York$2.7M
- Jeffrey SpivakNew York$1.3M
- Aaron BucklandNew York$1M
- Seth NeubardtWhite Plains$902K
- Sheeraz QureshiNew York$828K
- Jeffrey GoldsteinNew York$765K
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.