Timothy Wang, MD
Neurological Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1609308261
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (32.3%), consulting fees and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Trackx Technology, Inc. at 24.3% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $33,273, more than ten times the $1,947 reported in 2023.
Across 191 payments — averaging $274.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Trackx Technology, Inc.$13K
- Globus Medical$10K
- Arthrex$10K
- Spineology Inc.$9K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$6K
- Stryker$1K
- plus $4K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,0002%
- Consulting fees$15,70030%
- Speaking & faculty fees$10,00019%
- Travel & lodging$8,26216%
- Food & beverage$16,94732%
- Entertainment$5801%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trackx Technology, Inc. | 6 | $12,753 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 31 | $10,052 |
| Arthrex | 4 | $10,000 |
| Spineology Inc. | 75 | $8,612 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 23 | $5,805 |
| Stryker | 12 | $1,169 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $1,044 |
| Medtronic | 6 | $765 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 5 | $504 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 4 | $420 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $357 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 3 | $224 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 4 | $173 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $128 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $118 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Theragen, Inc. | 1 | $76 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 2 | $69 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $68 |
| VB Spine LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $29 |
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.
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$6,483
- Other - Miscellaneous$4,480
- Xvision$1,963
- Teligen$980
- XLIF$919
- SERRATO$754
- ALTERA$687
- Excelsius - GPS$500
- COALITION$302
- BONESCALPEL & SONICONE (O.R.)$297
- SafeOp$210
- INVICTUS OPEN$201
- DIVERGENCE-L ANTERIOR/OBLIQUE LUMBAR FUSION SYSTEM$194
- ZEVO ANTERIOR CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$169
- AQUAMANTYS$169
- PCM$168
- aprevo$157
- UNID_PASS$154
- ALIF$143
- Irrisept$128
How this compares
$52,489 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 302 neurological surgery providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 12 | $46 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Chicago
- Tyler KoskiChicago$2.3M
- Vincent TraynelisChicago$1.8M
- Sergey NeckryshChicago$1.6M
- Richard FesslerChicago$910K
- John OtooleChicago$593K
- Fady CharbelChicago$507K
- Issam AwadChicago$266K
- Mohamad BydonChicago$163K
- Ali AlarajChicago$155K
- Konstantin SlavinChicago$153K
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.