Satyajit Marawar, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Flint, MINPI 1689831992
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $5,689 of the $7,434 with a category attached, or 76.5%. It is spread thinly across 14 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 24.0%. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in MI, where the typical reported total is $10,194.
Across 48 payments — averaging $154.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spineology Inc.$2K
- Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C.$1K
- Medtronic$1K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Nalu Medical, Inc.$692
- Arthrex$573
- plus $1K from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,68977%
- Food & beverage$1,72923%
- Gifts$150%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spineology Inc. | 7 | $1,781 |
| Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C. | 4 | $1,142 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 10 | $1,142 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $1,010 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 4 | $692 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $573 |
| Zak Ortho | 1 | $397 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $186 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 3 | $185 |
| Amgen | 1 | $121 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $80 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $75 |
| Stryker | 1 | $32 |
| Atlas Spine, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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
$7,434 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 37 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Michigan.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 12 | $95 |
| Gabapentin | 13 | $68 |
| Meloxicam | 19 | $64 |
| Mupirocin | 12 | $62 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Flint
- Peter BonoSouthfield$786K
- Joseph BrownGrand Rapids$565K
- Nilesh PatelDearborn$449K
- Michael KastenKalamazoo$261K
- John LamacchiaRochester$179K
- Joshua EllwitzKalamazoo$150K
- Michael KapsokavathisBirmingham$120K
- Michael DonahueAuburn Hills$96K
- Matthew KarekGrand Rapids$90K
- Jeffrey WingateWarren$57K
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.