Steven Fineberg, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Park Ridge, ILNPI 1760708895
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (45.7%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.7%. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $7,933 and has fallen 96.2% since, to $300 in 2025.
Across 213 payments — averaging $127.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$6K
- Medtronic$5K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$4K
- Cerapedics Inc.$4K
- Geistlich Pharma, North America, Inc.$2K
- Stryker$1K
- plus $5K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,93014%
- Speaking & faculty fees$740%
- Travel & lodging$10,72940%
- Food & beverage$12,39246%
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(2 entities) | 44 | $6,419 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 58 | $5,219 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 16 | $3,912 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 17 | $3,693 |
| Geistlich Pharma, North America, Inc. | 1 | $1,500 |
| Stryker | 7 | $1,293 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 17 | $1,177 |
| Medicrea USA, Corp. | 12 | $909 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 7 | $672 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 7 | $566 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $305 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 8 | $274 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $249 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $177 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 2 | $171 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $161 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Wenzel Spine, Inc. | 1 | $97 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $86 |
| 7d Surgical Inc. | 1 | $61 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Spinal Surgical Strategies, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $20 |
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.
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$3,325
- Other - Miscellaneous$2,524
- RISE-L$1,591
- Xvision$1,524
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$1,388
- ELSA$1,277
- O-ARM-ST$1,200
- PASS-LP$680
- UNiD$680
- XLIF$643
- Quartex$512
- iFuse Implant$477
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$436
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$354
- Excelsius - GPS$321
- CREO$300
- CD HORIZON$239
- ALTERA$227
- Simplify Cervical Artificial Disc$189
- MagnetOs$180
How this compares
$27,125 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Illinois.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 21 | $327 |
| Meloxicam | 12 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Park Ridge
- Christopher BerginPark Ridge$6K
- Avi BernsteinPark Ridge$1K
- David SpencerPark Ridge$941
- Frank PhillipsChicago$3.9M
- Kern SinghChicago$1.3M
- Christopher DewaldChicago$1.2M
- P Ronjon PaulNaperville$908K
- Philip MeinhardtQuincy$507K
- Anis MekhailPalos Heights$498K
- Matthew ColmanChicago$334K
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.