Steven Ericksen, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Wichita, KSNPI 1639335490
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (50.4%), food and beverage and gifts — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Globus Medical accounts for 82.3% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 273 payments — averaging $36.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$8K
- Stryker$1K
- CTL Medical Corporation$448
- DJO, LLC$57
- Convatec Inc.$21
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,06750%
- Food & beverage$4,73047%
- Gifts$2593%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 241 | $8,273 |
| Stryker | 25 | $1,257 |
| CTL Medical Corporation | 4 | $448 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $57 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $21 |
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.
- Excelsius Robotics System$2,242
- Spine$993
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$683
- SERRATO$634
- EXCELSIUS$511
- MESA$427
- Raphael Pedicle Screw System$422
- Excelsius - GPS$389
- EVEREST$348
- TRITANIUM$348
- CAPRI$286
- YUKON$286
- VLIFT$286
- REFLECT/REFLECT HDE$116
- CREO$112
How this compares
Too few orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Kansasto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 | 33 | $602 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 64 | $525 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 33 | $405 |
| Meloxicam | 99 | $299 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 28 | $284 |
| Gabapentin | 32 | $147 |
| Methocarbamol | 14 | $106 |
| Diazepam | 11 | $44 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Wichita
- Alan MoskowitzWichita$1M
- Mark WhitakerWichita$19K
- Jacob BirlingmairWichita$8K
- Joshua BunchKansas City$70K
- Shyam ShridharaniOlathe$63K
- Douglas BurtonKansas City$43K
- Joseph WeinerKansas City$16K
- Joshua KarlinLeawood$14K
- Robert JacksonKansas City$3K
- Neda GilmartinHutchinson$1K
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.