Steven Lasser, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Geneva, NYNPI 1750302048
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,223 of the $6,631 with a category attached, or 78.8%. Stryker accounts for 66.0% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $1,859 and has fallen 51.4% since, to $904 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in NY, where the typical reported total is $11,594.
Across 89 payments — averaging $74.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$4K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$502
- Kerecis Limited$398
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$219
- Atricure, Inc.$166
- Acumed LLC$158
- plus $811 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$240%
- Travel & lodging$1,24619%
- Food & beverage$5,22379%
- Education$1372%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 67 | $4,377 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $502 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $398 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $219 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $166 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $158 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $149 |
| Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $128 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $125 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $125 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $78 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $29 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $23 |
| Abbott | 1 | $20 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Kerecis SurgiClose$1,591
- CASCADIA$1,402
- Kerecis GraftGuide$398
- NIAGARA LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$171
- SPINEJACK$167
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$166
- RibLoc$158
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$141
- BARHEMSYS$128
- Caldolor$125
- Kcentra$125
- Iovera$125
- APONVIE$122
- Zynrelef$122
- MESA RAIL$118
- GATTEX$118
- SERRATO$107
- AIRO$105
How this compares
$6,631 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 161 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New York.
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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 | 17 | $144 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $59 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Geneva
- Hansen YuanSyracuse$31.7M
- Frank SchwabNew York$5.1M
- Han KimNew York$3.9M
- Todd AlbertNew York$2.7M
- Jeffrey SpivakNew York$1.3M
- Aaron BucklandNew York$1M
- Seth NeubardtWhite Plains$902K
- Sheeraz QureshiNew York$828K
- Jeffrey GoldsteinNew York$765K
- Fabien BitanNew York$624K
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.