Tyler Carson, DO
Neurological Surgery · Palmdale, CANPI 1508123167
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (39.8%), royalties or licence payments and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 33 manufacturers reported payments, led by Nexxt Spine LLC at 57.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $35,453, more than ten times the $142 reported in 2019.
Across 129 payments — averaging $769.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Nexxt Spine LLC$57K
- Spineart USA Inc$24K
- Neo Spine USA, Inc.$7K
- Aegis Spine, Inc.$5K
- Amplify Surgical, Inc.$3K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$1K
- plus $3K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$37,64038%
- Consulting fees$39,45740%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,0482%
- Travel & lodging$15,00215%
- Food & beverage$5,0825%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nexxt Spine LLC | 33 | $56,985 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 19 | $23,511 |
| Neo Spine USA, Inc. | 3 | $7,000 |
| Aegis Spine, Inc. | 1 | $4,550 |
| Amplify Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $2,521 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 2 | $1,260 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 10 | $839 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus | 2 | $677 |
| Nevro Corp. | 5 | $296 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $289 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 5 | $141 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $126 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $102 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 2 | $91 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $71 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $69 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $63 |
| Abbott | 3 | $54 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $53 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $47 |
| Stryker | 2 | $39 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $39 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $35 |
| Expanding Innovations, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 1 | $21 |
| EBI, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $20 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $13 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Connexx MIS System$50,520
- SCARLET$10,500
- Neo Pedicle Screw System$7,000
- PERLA C$5,715
- Connexx Open System$2,927
- dual-X$2,500
- Intracept$1,399
- Perla TL$1,185
- Nexxt Matrixx Products$1,159
- 3D Printed Matrixx Technology$797
- FlareHawk$600
- Connexx MIS & Open Systems$478
- Omnia$209
- ProLift Lateral$143
- TruLift$143
- ProLift Micro$143
- Connexx MIS$131
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$124
- Lateral Retractor Instruments$113
How this compares
$99,230 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 773 neurological surgery providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 12 | $133 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Palmdale
- Christopher AmesSan Francisco$7.1M
- Larry KhooLos Angeles$2.8M
- Samy AbdouSan Diego$2.4M
- Bret AbshireMurrieta$2.3M
- William TaylorSan Diego$2.1M
- Tooraj GravoriEncino$2M
- Ali MesiwalaRancho Cucamonga$1.5M
- Joseph OsorioSan Diego$1.3M
- Ian JohnsonFresno$1.3M
- Aaron Cohen-GadolLos Angeles$1.3M
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.