Steven Meyer, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Columbia, MONPI 1215000302
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $442,764 of the $545,164 with a category attached, or 81.2%. Globus Medical accounts for 83.7% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $153,922 and has fallen 89.5% since, to $16,227 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in MO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 256 payments — averaging $2129.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$456K
- Si-bone, Inc.$38K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$23K
- Xtant Medical Inc$16K
- Curiteva, Inc.$3K
- MML US, Inc.$3K
- plus $6K from 11 others
Across 151 payments — averaging $3036.70 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Globus Medical$428K
- Si-bone, Inc.$15K
- MML US, Inc.$15K
Across 4 payments — averaging $6250.00 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Axiomed LLC$25K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$442,76481%
- Consulting fees$65,26812%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,2001%
- Travel & lodging$24,2604%
- Food & beverage$9,6532%
- Education$100%
- Gifts$100%
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) | 94 | $456,159 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 34 | $38,191 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 49 | $23,341 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 8 | $15,733 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 3 | $3,371 |
| MML US, Inc. | 26 | $2,698 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 8 | $1,880 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 12 | $1,549 |
| Arthrex | 9 | $988 |
| CTL Medical Corporation | 1 | $838 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $187 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $94 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $47 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Vertex | 1 | $23 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Precept$428,858
- iFuse Implant$37,684
- ALIF$12,664
- XLIF$11,234
- CORTERA$9,100
- ARAI SURGICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM$3,140
- Pulse$2,875
- FORTILINK-TC TIPLUS$2,338
- STREAMLINE TL SPINAL FIXATION SYSTEM$2,338
- STREAMLINE* OCT OCCIPITO-CERVICO-THORACIC SYSTEM$2,338
- ReActiv8$2,008
- OsteoCentric 4.0 x 130mm LOCKING BONE SCREW FASTENER ST$1,798
- Excelsius - GPS$1,164
- ELSA$540
- Spine$396
- iGA$133
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$126
- Excelsius Robotics System$102
How this compares
$545,164 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 53 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Missouri.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 90 | $1,155 |
| Gabapentin | 51 | $389 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 49 | $176 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 19 | $168 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 17 | $155 |
| Methylprednisolone | 17 | $119 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 24 | $111 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Columbia
- Tyler JenkinsColumbia$56K
- Jeffrey ParkerColumbia$44K
- Robert GainesColumbia$39K
- Abdul Fettah BuyukColumbia$38K
- Theodore ChomaColumbia$21K
- Don MooreColumbia$18K
- John MilesColumbia$15K
- Jason KoreckijColumbia$4K
- Nikhil JainColumbia$3K
- Thomas HighlandColumbia$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.