Thomas Schuler, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Reston, VANPI 1659340412
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $4,500 of the $7,143 with a category attached, or 63.0%. Centinel Spine, LLC accounts for 64.4% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $5,507 and has fallen 99.5% since, to $30 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in VA, where the typical reported total is $18,012.
Across 32 payments — averaging $223.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Centinel Spine, LLC$5K
- Medtronic$2K
- Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC$261
- Globus Medical$203
- Augmedics Inc.$92
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$34
- plus $57 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,50063%
- Travel & lodging$1,05515%
- Food & beverage$1,58822%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 3 | $4,600 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 13 | $1,895 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 5 | $261 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 4 | $203 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 2 | $92 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $30 |
| Abbott | 1 | $15 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- STALIF M FLX$3,600
- O-ARM-ST$1,380
- PRODISC L$1,000
- MazorX - Renaissance$124
- ACTIVL$116
- Distal Femur Plate System$108
How this compares
$7,143 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 43 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Virginia.
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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.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Reston
- Christopher GoodReston$1.7M
- Colin HainesReston$700K
- Ehsan JaziniReston$502K
- Michael HaszReston$31K
- Dhruv PatederReston$16K
- Jed VanichkachornRichmond$2.3M
- John SimpsonRichmond$880K
- Francis ShenCharlottesville$432K
- Jeffrey CarlsonNewport News$295K
- Thomas SciosciaRichmond$274K
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.