Robert Isaacs
Neurological Surgery · Durham, NCNPI 1518041672
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $6,617,523 of the $6,628,704 with a category attached, or 99.8%. Globus Medical accounts for 94.7% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among neurological surgery clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 234 payments — averaging $28,328 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$6.3M
- Integrity Implants Inc.$236K
- Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus$106K
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$4K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- Spineology Inc.$1K
- plus $1K from 11 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $3750.00 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.
- Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.$4K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$6,617,523100%
- Consulting fees$2,0000%
- Travel & lodging$4,6150%
- Food & beverage$4,4650%
- Entertainment$1010%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 159 | $6,277,772 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 28 | $235,953 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus | 8 | $106,155 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 8 | $4,394 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 8 | $2,030 |
| Spineology Inc. | 4 | $1,043 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $314 |
| Biedermann Motech, Inc. | 4 | $287 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 2 | $245 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $125 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $97 |
| NSK America Corporation | 1 | $75 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $62 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $58 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 1 | $54 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, 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.
- RELINE$5,551,275
- VuePoint$5,049,489
- Precept$4,869,914
- Bendini$4,755,194
- Armada$2,923,606
- FlareHawk$341,580
- TLX$224,621
- CAVUX Cervical Cage$4,382
- DTRAX Spinal System$4,382
- ALLY Bone Screw$4,382
- BIOLOGIX Allograft Bone$4,382
- MULTIPLE$1,782
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$520
- OptiMesh Interbody Fusion System$400
- Pulse$353
- Minuteman$203
- ALIF$159
- LessRay$159
- XLIF$159
- MOSS VRS Spinal System$131
How this compares
$6,628,704 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 196 neurological surgery providers in North Carolina.
Other neurological surgery in Durham
- Christopher ShaffreyDurham$4.5M
- Khoi ThanDurham$192K
- Michael HaglundDurham$163K
- Timothy MillerDurham$102K
- Courtney GoodwinDurham$97K
- Erik HauckDurham$94K
- Shivanand LadDurham$91K
- Emad HasanDurham$79K
- Kristen JonesDurham$48K
- Domagoj CoricCharlotte$2.3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.