Taylor Paziuk
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Cleveland, OHNPI 1881191294
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (41.6%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by VB Spine LLC at 41.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $15,331, 2.9 times the $5,341 reported in 2019.
Across 72 payments — averaging $451.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- VB Spine LLC$14K
- Stryker$8K
- Liberty Surgical Inc.$7K
- Synthes GmbH$3K
- Globus Medical$526
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$156
- plus $273 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$13,50042%
- Travel & lodging$8,08025%
- Food & beverage$3,72211%
- Education$7,17222%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| VB Spine LLC | 3 | $13,540 |
| Stryker | 51 | $7,504 |
| Liberty Surgical Inc. | 4 | $7,172 |
| Synthes GmbH | 4 | $3,302 |
| Globus Medical | 6 | $526 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $156 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $90 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $33 |
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.
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$16,718
- AERO-LL$1,577
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$675
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$175
- INSIGNIA$172
- SERRATO$161
- HEDRON IA$156
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$150
- CREO 5.5$144
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$139
- SECURE-C$108
How this compares
$32,474 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 11 | $99 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 18 | $75 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Cleveland
- Jason SavageCleveland$735K
- Jerold GurleyCleveland$649K
- Haariss IlyasCleveland$314K
- Saad ChaudharyCleveland$84K
- Zachary GordonCleveland$73K
- Jonathan BeldingCleveland$15K
- Bilal ButtCleveland$13K
- Prashant RajanCleveland$9K
- Emily HuCleveland$9K
- Christina ChengCleveland$3K
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.