Stephen Parker, MD
Neurological Surgery · Jacksonville, FLNPI 1285808063
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $16,029,083 of the $18,694,952 with a category attached, or 85.7%. Medtronic accounts for 100.0% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $16,029,154 and has fallen 99.7% since, to $42,411 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in FL 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 59 payments — averaging $316,864 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$18.7M
- Nevro Corp.$1K
- Boston Scientific$991
- Globus Medical$236
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$231
- Johnson & Johnson$192
- plus $226 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$16,029,08386%
- Travel & lodging$9300%
- Food & beverage$2,2620%
- Education$200%
- Other$2,662,65714%
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(2 entities) | 26 | $18,692,034 |
| Nevro Corp. | 5 | $1,041 |
| Boston Scientific | 15 | $991 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 3 | $236 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $231 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $192 |
| Abbott | 2 | $70 |
| Corelink, LLC | 1 | $63 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $20 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Ellipsys$17,979,905
- ELLIPSYS VASCULAR ACCESS SYSTEM$711,835
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$930
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$254
- Other - Miscellaneous$231
- XLIF$146
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$132
- Teligen$121
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$114
How this compares
$18,694,952 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 556 neurological surgery providers in Florida.
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.
Other neurological surgery in Jacksonville
- Andrew CannestraJacksonville$1.6M
- Ricardo HanelJacksonville$1.2M
- Eric NottmeierJacksonville$959K
- Ali ChahlaviJacksonville$855K
- Bernard GuiotJacksonville$269K
- Adam PolifkaJacksonville$227K
- Javier Garcia-BengocheaJacksonville$201K
- Bradley WallaceJacksonville$169K
- Eric PetersonMiami$10.1M
- Brian SnellingBoca Raton$10M
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.