Timothy Graven, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Saint Peters, MONPI 1417015827
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (51.8%), royalties or licence payments and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Corelink, LLC accounts for 69.1% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $15,222 and has fallen 67.0% since, to $5,025 in 2025.
Across 114 payments — averaging $355.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Corelink, LLC$28K
- Zavation Medical Products, LLC$5K
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$3K
- Vertiflex, Inc.$2K
- Boston Scientific$484
- Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC$429
- plus $2K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$9,52023%
- Consulting fees$21,00052%
- Travel & lodging$5,25513%
- Food & beverage$4,65211%
- Gifts$1000%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Corelink, LLC | 25 | $28,017 |
| Zavation Medical Products, LLC | 12 | $5,188 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 11 | $2,618 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 13 | $2,032 |
| Boston Scientific | 15 | $484 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 9 | $429 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $213 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 7 | $198 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $178 |
| Flowonix Medical Incorporated | 1 | $151 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $137 |
| Abbott | 1 | $137 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $121 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 2 | $109 |
| 7d Surgical Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $89 |
| Paradigm Spine, LLC | 2 | $78 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $58 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $51 |
| EBI, LLC | 1 | $45 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $23 |
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.
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$2,379
- Superion ISS$1,758
- Xvision$891
- Prometra II$151
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$137
- PROCLAIM$137
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$133
- STAR Tumor Ablation System$121
- StabiliT$121
How this compares
$40,527 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 53 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Missouri.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| NucyntaTapentadol Hcl | 13 | $17,512 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 544 | $8,804 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 440 | $6,132 |
| Gabapentin | 202 | $2,410 |
| Meloxicam | 598 | $1,859 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 151 | $1,776 |
| Lidocaine | 13 | $1,651 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 103 | $1,649 |
| Baclofen | 119 | $1,121 |
| Pregabalin | 50 | $1,042 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 170 | $959 |
| Methylprednisolone | 140 | $953 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 33 | $675 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 24 | $430 |
| Celecoxib | 18 | $282 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Saint Peters
- Terrence PiperSaint Peters$12K
- Roger JacksonNorth Kansas City$68.5M
- Munish GuptaSaint Louis$1M
- Jacob BuchowskiSaint Louis$658K
- Steven MeyerColumbia$545K
- Rahul BashoHannibal$498K
- John PelozaChesterfield$249K
- Brian NeumanSaint Louis$106K
- Andre JakoiKansas City$97K
- William RodgersJefferson City$77K
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.