Has Sanjeev Suratwala, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,680 in general payments to Sanjeev Suratwala, MD across 27 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Sanjeev Suratwala, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Sanjeev Suratwala, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Sanjeev Suratwala, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Great Neck, NYNPI 1447296355

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,658 of the $3,680 with a category attached, or 72.2%. Medtronic accounts for 69.1% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,622 and has fallen 95.6% since, to $115 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in NY, where the typical reported total is $11,594.

$3,680in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 27 payments — averaging $136.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$3K
Zimmer Biomet$632
Zimvie Inc.$335
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$172

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,65872%
Food & beverage$1,02228%

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
Medtronic	17	$2,541
Zimmer Biomet	5	$632
Zimvie Inc.	4	$335
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	1	$172

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

$3,680 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 161 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$171,010

Medicare patients

340

Services billed

1,824

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
Lidocaine	20	$1,297
Gabapentin	233	$997
Tizanidine Hcl	185	$725
Diclofenac Sodium-MisoprostolDiclofenac Sodium/Misoprostol	14	$624
Celecoxib	20	$597
Diclofenac Sodium	113	$543
Methylprednisolone	43	$278
Baclofen	49	$237
Meloxicam	54	$137

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Great Neck

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
Fabien BitanNew York$624K

See the full list for New York →

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.

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