Stephanie de Vere, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Lees Summit, MONPI 1477102382
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $3,813 of the $5,222 with a category attached, or 73.0%. Stryker accounts for 65.9% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,798 and has fallen 89.9% since, to $181 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in MO, where the typical reported total is $12,644.
Across 49 payments — averaging $106.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Medtronic$220
- Innovation Technologies Inc$133
- Amgen$102
- Centinel Spine, LLC$67
- plus $164 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,81373%
- Food & beverage$1,40827%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 22 | $3,442 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 9 | $1,094 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $220 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $133 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 5 | $102 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $67 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $36 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $35 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $19 |
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
$5,222 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 53 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Missouri.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 64 | $410 |
| Gabapentin | 41 | $407 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 24 | $367 |
| Pregabalin | 12 | $140 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 15 | $126 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $54 |
| Meloxicam | 12 | $29 |
| Lorazepam | 11 | $8 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Lees Summit
- Roger JacksonNorth Kansas City$68.5M
- Munish GuptaSaint Louis$1M
- Jacob BuchowskiSaint Louis$658K
- Steven MeyerColumbia$545K
- Rahul BashoHannibal$498K
- John PelozaChesterfield$249K
- Brian NeumanSaint Louis$106K
- Andre JakoiKansas City$97K
- William RodgersJefferson City$77K
- Tyler JenkinsColumbia$56K
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.