Richard Wohns, MD
Neurological Surgery · Puyallup, WANPI 1710084744
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (53.5%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 28 manufacturers reported payments, led by Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation at 51.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $14,030 and has fallen 98.9% since, to $153 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in WA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 253 payments — averaging $179.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$23K
- Medtronic$13K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$5K
- Globus Medical$1K
- Highridge Medical LLC$500
- Zimvie Inc.$433
- plus $1K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$910%
- Consulting fees$24,27553%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,30014%
- Travel & lodging$8,46719%
- Food & beverage$6,25614%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 24 | $23,233 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 152 | $13,285 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 21 | $5,133 |
| Globus Medical | 9 | $1,462 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $500 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 3 | $433 |
| Nevro Corp. | 11 | $290 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $241 |
| Wenzel Spine, Inc. | 3 | $97 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $88 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $81 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $59 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 2 | $48 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $46 |
| CTL Medical Corporation | 1 | $42 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Stratus Medical, LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $23 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $22 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Terumo BCT, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $17 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $16 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Cabo$4,250
- Capistrano Allograft$4,250
- Other - Miscellaneous$2,987
- Meridian$2,500
- ATLANTIS$1,800
- Vu aPOD Prime NanoMetalene$1,500
- Mariner$1,500
- Excelsius Robotics System$1,109
- PRESTIGE$750
- 7D Surgical System$671
- OsteoSurge 300$500
- Vital$500
- PERCEPT PC BRAINSENSE$472
- MULTIPLE$462
- BIOLOGICS$313
- Spine-None$207
- EXCELSIUS$201
- MazorX - Renaissance$179
- INVICTUS OPEN$171
- ATHLET$150
How this compares
$45,389 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 175 neurological surgery providers in Washington.
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.
Other neurological surgery in Puyallup
- Rod OskouianSeattle$2.4M
- Christoph HofstetterSeattle$768K
- David YamBrush Prairie$471K
- Stephen MonteithSeattle$151K
- Allan HellerSpokane$132K
- Jean-Christophe LevequeSeattle$120K
- Vijay YanamadalaSeattle$85K
- Hoan Vu TranSeattle$78K
- Martin RutkowskiSeattle$62K
- Debra SteeleRichland$61K
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.