Stephen Ritland, MD
Neurological Surgery · Flagstaff, AZNPI 1346270832
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $125,000 of the $178,845 with a category attached, or 69.9%. Medtronic accounts for 70.0% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $45,312 and has fallen 99.7% since, to $114 in 2025.
Across 97 payments — averaging $1843.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$125K
- Globus Medical$24K
- Spine Wave, Inc.$20K
- Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$9K
- Cerapedics Inc.$187
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$98
- plus $117 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$125,00070%
- Consulting fees$42,88824%
- Travel & lodging$8,8245%
- Food & beverage$2,1341%
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) | 9 | $125,138 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 29 | $24,351 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 35 | $19,933 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 10 | $9,022 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $187 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 6 | $98 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $23 |
| 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.
- Spinal Implants$9,019
- MIS Posterior Cervical$8,888
- MagnetOs$8,789
- MICROFUSE$8,100
- SALVO SPINE SYSTEM$7,200
- Excelsius - GPS$3,378
- Excelsius Robotics System$2,559
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$642
- Fixation$471
- XLIF$304
- Pulse$120
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$105
How this compares
$178,845 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 173 neurological surgery providers in Arizona.
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-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 197 | $1,192 |
| Dexamethasone | 77 | $372 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 40 | $272 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 47 | $265 |
| Gabapentin | 20 | $228 |
| Pregabalin | 19 | $181 |
| Celecoxib | 11 | $88 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Flagstaff
- Sandip SavaliyaFlagstaff$25K
- Ali RajaFlagstaff$15K
- Robert SpetzlerPhoenix$12.8M
- Juan UribePhoenix$6.7M
- Stephen PapadopoulosPhoenix$6M
- Volker SonntagPhoenix$2M
- Richard ChuaTucson$1.3M
- Jay TurnerPhoenix$1.2M
- Steve ChangChandler$1.1M
- Frederick MarcianoScottsdale$809K
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.