Scott McCarty, PharmD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Livonia, MINPI 1558789008
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $18,107 of the $29,164 with a category attached, or 62.1%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alphatec Spine, Inc at 29.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $9,294 and has fallen 77.6% since, to $2,078 in 2025.
Across 157 payments — averaging $185.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$9K
- Cerapedics Inc.$4K
- Life Spine, Inc.$4K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
- Stryker$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- plus $6K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,85213%
- Travel & lodging$18,10762%
- Food & beverage$7,15925%
- Education$450%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 33 | $8,505 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 9 | $3,818 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 13 | $3,590 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 13 | $3,043 |
| Stryker | 12 | $2,330 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 16 | $1,589 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 8 | $1,455 |
| Spineology Inc. | 10 | $1,009 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 9 | $972 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $701 |
| Innovasis Inc | 6 | $664 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $523 |
| Globus Medical | 10 | $349 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $224 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $115 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $73 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $18 |
| Mimedx Group, 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.
- Other - Miscellaneous$6,461
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$3,710
- Dyna-Link Ti Barbs$2,352
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,562
- Velys$1,434
- Mobi-C$1,429
- Teligen$1,368
- Xvision$1,118
- iFuse Implant$1,115
- ProLift Lateral$876
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$846
- ProLift Lateral Fixated$774
- ProLift Lateral Helo$774
- CENTRIC - T RETRACTOR$774
- SENTRY LATERAL PLATING SYSTEM$774
- MESA$650
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$626
- C-TEK MAXAN$386
- DYNA-LINK STAND-ALONE ANTERIOR LUMBAR SYSTEM$355
- TriCor$305
How this compares
$29,164 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pregabalin | 141 | $1,628 |
| Lidocaine | 12 | $1,125 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 153 | $890 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 45 | $578 |
| Meloxicam | 162 | $510 |
| Gabapentin | 39 | $411 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 23 | $291 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 13 | $267 |
| Prednisone | 30 | $81 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Livonia
- Rasheed AbiolaLivonia$43K
- Joseph MaslakLivonia$13K
- Stanley LeeLivonia$2K
- Peter BonoSouthfield$786K
- Joseph BrownGrand Rapids$565K
- Nilesh PatelDearborn$449K
- Michael KastenKalamazoo$261K
- John LamacchiaRochester$179K
- Joshua EllwitzKalamazoo$150K
- Michael KapsokavathisBirmingham$120K
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.