Theodore Koreckij, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Leawood, KSNPI 1841432937
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Stryker accounts for 75.1% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2024 is the largest year on record at $641, more than ten times the $39 reported in 2019.
Across 12 payments — averaging $65.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$590
- Globus Medical$105
- Bioventus LLC$39
- Carestream Health, Inc.$27
- Vericel Corporation$24
Across 8 payments — averaging $884.40 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.
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$7K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$32742%
- Food & beverage$45858%
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 | 7 | $590 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $105 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Carestream Health, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $24 |
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$438
- Sable$105
How this compares
Too few orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Kansasto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 | 81 | $583 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 82 | $572 |
| Celecoxib | 27 | $411 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 22 | $160 |
| Methylprednisolone | 23 | $152 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 18 | $122 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 24 | $114 |
| Meloxicam | 19 | $83 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Leawood
- Joshua KarlinLeawood$14K
- Alan MoskowitzWichita$1M
- Joshua BunchKansas City$70K
- Shyam ShridharaniOlathe$63K
- Douglas BurtonKansas City$43K
- Mark WhitakerWichita$19K
- Joseph WeinerKansas City$16K
- Steven EricksenWichita$10K
- Jacob BirlingmairWichita$8K
- Robert JacksonKansas City$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.