Robert Bina, MD
Neurological Surgery · Phoenix, AZNPI 1376980821
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $50,625 of the $55,913 with a category attached, or 90.5%. Boston Scientific accounts for 82.0% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $45,492 and has fallen 99.4% since, to $276 in 2025.
Across 110 payments — averaging $508.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$46K
- Medtronic$7K
- Abbott$799
- Neuropace, Inc.$630
- Johnson & Johnson$391
- Monteris Medical Corporation$322
- plus $1K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$50,62591%
- Food & beverage$5,2889%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 11 | $45,874 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 19 | $6,754 |
| Abbott | 23 | $799 |
| Neuropace, Inc. | 17 | $630 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $391 |
| Monteris Medical Corporation | 8 | $322 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 3 | $255 |
| Microtransponder, Inc. | 1 | $211 |
| UCB, Inc. | 3 | $144 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 8 | $144 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 2 | $126 |
| Insightec,inc | 1 | $95 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $67 |
| Stryker | 1 | $46 |
| Argenx US, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Amgen | 1 | $16 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $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.
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$45,000
- ACTIVA$5,625
- SenSight$311
- Neuroblate$250
- XLIF$228
- PROCLAIM$167
- INFINITY$166
- VERCISE$165
- Proclaim IPG$160
- PERCEPT PC BRAINSENSE$142
- GENERAL DBS$136
- NAVIGATION$125
- RNS Neurostimulator Kit$124
- StealthStation$115
- Proclaim DRG IPG$113
- RNS System$109
- Briviact$106
How this compares
$55,913 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 173 neurological surgery providers in Arizona.
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 | 15 | $91 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Phoenix
- Robert SpetzlerPhoenix$12.8M
- Juan UribePhoenix$6.7M
- Stephen PapadopoulosPhoenix$6M
- Volker SonntagPhoenix$2M
- Jay TurnerPhoenix$1.2M
- Michael LawtonPhoenix$761K
- Bryan LeePhoenix$441K
- Randall PorterPhoenix$410K
- Joseph ZabramskiPhoenix$381K
- Francisco PoncePhoenix$292K
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.