Tyler Auschwitz
Neurological Surgery · Tulsa, OKNPI 1003050493
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $12,396 of the $16,599 with a category attached, or 74.7%. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 40.5% of the total.
Across 156 payments — averaging $106.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$7K
- Penumbra, Inc.$3K
- Si-bone, Inc.$1K
- Imperative Care, Inc$1K
- Kls-martin L.p.$755
- Medtronic$706
- plus $3K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,32814%
- Food & beverage$12,39675%
- Education$1,87511%
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 | 44 | $6,716 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 31 | $2,643 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 5 | $1,326 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 13 | $1,235 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 14 | $755 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 15 | $706 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 8 | $609 |
| Qapel Medical Inc | 1 | $455 |
| Rapid Medical Ltd | 5 | $445 |
| VB Spine LLC | 1 | $271 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 4 | $245 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 3 | $200 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $180 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $156 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $148 |
| Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| Balt USA, LLC | 1 | $87 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $73 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $73 |
| Ceribell, Inc. | 1 | $60 |
| Scientia Vascular | 1 | $39 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Trisalus Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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$1,776
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,751
- Penumbra SMART Coil$1,102
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$1,069
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$637
- Smart$596
- ZOOM 88-T LARGE DISTAL PLATFORM$562
- Comaneci$349
- SPINEMAP$322
- GENERAL K2M PRODUCT DISCUSSION$292
- TRACSTAR LARGE DISTAL PLATFORM$274
- NIAGARA LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$271
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$242
- Penumbra Coil 400$242
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$239
- Pipeline$193
- WEB Aneurysm Embolization System$174
- N/A$173
- Imperative Care Zoom$170
- Imperative Care TracStar$170
How this compares
$16,599 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 80 neurological surgery providers in Oklahoma.
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 Hcl | 72 | $435 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 23 | $242 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 16 | $109 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Tulsa
- Clinton BairdTulsa$621K
- Michael ThambuswamyTulsa$92K
- Daniel HarwellTulsa$63K
- Mohammad Yashar KalaniTulsa$23K
- Kevin KlosTulsa$21K
- Brian HoodTulsa$13K
- Shihao ZhangTulsa$8K
- Donald SchleicherTulsa$6K
- John MaroukTulsa$4K
- Scott DullTulsa$2K
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.