Timothy Bassett, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Tuscaloosa, ALNPI 1013991892
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $203,290 of the $290,971 with a category attached, or 69.9%. Innovasis Inc accounts for 87.8% of it on its own, with 28 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $68,515 and has fallen 76.8% since, to $15,880 in 2025.
Across 182 payments — averaging $1598.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Innovasis Inc$255K
- Curiteva, Inc.$17K
- Cutting Edge Spine, LLC$5K
- Spineart USA Inc$4K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$3K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$2K
- plus $4K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$35,32512%
- Consulting fees$203,29070%
- Speaking & faculty fees$14,7055%
- Travel & lodging$26,5679%
- Food & beverage$11,0844%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Innovasis Inc | 47 | $255,440 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 5 | $17,491 |
| Cutting Edge Spine, LLC | 6 | $5,048 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 15 | $4,203 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 4 | $3,281 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 32 | $1,852 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 13 | $1,094 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 14 | $652 |
| Stryker | 6 | $439 |
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 4 | $216 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 6 | $200 |
| Medical Investment Advisors LLC | 3 | $182 |
| Nanovis LLC | 2 | $140 |
| DJO, LLC | 3 | $121 |
| Alevio, LLC | 1 | $107 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $89 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 1 | $60 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $56 |
| Amgen | 3 | $43 |
| 4web, Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Abbott | 2 | $31 |
| Ossdsign USA Incorporated | 1 | $30 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $27 |
| CTL Medical Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Silony Medical Corp. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- TXHA$71,930
- Other - Miscellaneous$3,256
- PERLA C$2,304
- Mariner Deformity$879
- iFuse Implant$832
- TALOS$750
- Scarlet AL-T$404
- Perla TL$245
- IVS - VERTEBRAL AUGMENTATION PRODUCTS$189
- 7D Surgical System$189
- TRYPTIK Ti$139
- M6-C$122
- REFORM POCT SYSTEM$121
- Spinal-Stim$116
- SiCure$107
- SPINEJACK$105
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$104
How this compares
$290,971 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 20 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Alabama.
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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-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 177 | $937 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 23 | $165 |
| Methylprednisolone | 13 | $116 |
| Methocarbamol | 21 | $93 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Tuscaloosa
- Javier RetoHuntsville$768K
- Timothy HoltMontgomery$478K
- Phillip KravetzCullman$224K
- Charles GordonDaphne$208K
- Larry ParkerHuntsville$136K
- Todd VolkmanMobile$34K
- Bendt PetersenMobile$30K
- James WestMobile$25K
- Asra ToobaieMobile$9K
- Morris SeymourHuntsville$9K
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.