Has Steven Beer, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $167,507 in general payments to Steven Beer, MD across 196 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Steven Beer, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Steven Beer, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Steven Beer, MD

Neurological Surgery · Cheyenne, WYNPI 1588633291

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $159,290 of the $167,507 with a category attached, or 95.1%. Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 91.7% of it on its own, with 30 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $45,879 and has fallen 76.5% since, to $10,781 in 2025.

$167,507in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 196 payments — averaging $854.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alphatec Spine, Inc$154K
Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC$6K
International Rehabilitative Sciences, Inc$3K
Abbott$845
Medtronic$814
Johnson & Johnson$613
plus $2K from 25 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$159,29095%
Food & beverage$4,8903%
Other$3,3282%

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	32	$153,662
Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC	7	$5,836
International Rehabilitative Sciences, Inc	2	$3,342
Abbott	37	$845
Medtronic(2 entities)	29	$814
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	12	$613
Boston Scientific	20	$587
Stryker	5	$489
Si-bone, Inc.	9	$227
Camber Spine Technologies LLC	3	$174
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	6	$126
Augmedics Inc.	3	$100
Baxter Healthcare	3	$81
Nevro Corp.	3	$74
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC	4	$72
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$58
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$58
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	1	$51
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$40
Kls-martin L.p.	2	$29
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$27
Haemonetics Corporation	1	$25
CTL Medical Corporation	1	$24
Merck	1	$23
Globus Medical	1	$22
Choice Spine, LLC	1	$22
Spineology Inc.	1	$20
Xtant Medical Inc	1	$20
Carlsmed, Inc.	1	$18
Monteris Medical Corporation	1	$17
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	1	$11

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

Too few neurological surgery providers in Wyomingto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$140,351

Medicare patients

142

Services billed

418

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
Gabapentin	14	$219
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	11	$166

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Cheyenne

Claudio FelerCheyenne$5.3M
Judson CookCheyenne$25K
Jonas SheehanCheyenne$40
Thomas KopitnikCasper$79K
Robert NarotzkyCasper$61K
Glen PoffenbargerCody$55K
Wayne WarrenCasper$8K
Paul MatzCasper$217

See the full list for Wyoming →

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.

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