Steven Zhang, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1386104651
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,514 of the $5,806 with a category attached, or 77.8%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 33.5% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,029, more than ten times the $57 reported in 2020. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in OH, where the typical reported total is $9,469.
Across 81 payments — averaging $71.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$523
- AstraZeneca$266
- Stryker$193
- Boston Scientific$188
- plus $1K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,29222%
- Food & beverage$4,51478%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 22 | $1,948 |
| Medtronic | 14 | $1,524 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 18 | $523 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $266 |
| Stryker | 3 | $193 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $188 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $172 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 5 | $163 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 3 | $161 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $156 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $152 |
| Peter Brasseler Holdings, LLC | 1 | $102 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $79 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $68 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $57 |
| Paladin Technology Solutions | 1 | $21 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $18 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- INFINITY$1,462
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$1,064
- Xvision$677
- Austedo XR$266
- FASENRA$253
- Velys$251
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$156
- Other - Miscellaneous$152
- TRIALTIS$126
- SYMPHONY$126
- LATITUDE Communicator Power Supply$111
- MAKO$105
How this compares
$5,806 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Ohio.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 22 | $124 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Cincinnati
- Jaideep ChunduriCincinnati$264K
- Jared CrastoCincinnati$17K
- Viral JainCincinnati$7K
- Chirag BerryCincinnati$7K
- Michael RohmillerCincinnati$2K
- Michael PlanalpCincinnati$1K
- Ashok BiyaniToledo$1.2M
- Jason SavageCleveland$735K
- Jerold GurleyCleveland$649K
- Scot MillerAkron$404K
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.