Tyler Kreitz, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Brick, NJNPI 1801239645
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (59.2%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 60.1% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $12,820 and has fallen 99.6% since, to $47 in 2025.
Across 101 payments — averaging $172.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$10K
- Stryker$5K
- Globus Medical$389
- Nevro Corp.$371
- Abbott$348
- Si-bone, Inc.$196
- plus $694 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,29059%
- Travel & lodging$2,79616%
- Food & beverage$4,30225%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $10,451 |
| Stryker | 45 | $4,940 |
| Globus Medical | 14 | $389 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $371 |
| Abbott | 5 | $348 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 5 | $196 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Acumed LLC | 3 | $142 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $93 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $41 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $27 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $18 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $14 |
| EBI, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $13 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $8 |
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.
- RIALTO$10,290
- XIA$1,097
- SERRATO$685
- ES2 SPINAL SYSTEM$631
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$591
- ES2$495
- MESA SPINAL SYSTEM$397
- AERO$378
- TRITANIUM$378
- CASCADIA$281
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$248
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$207
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$161
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$144
- Senza$143
- iFuse Implant$139
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$138
- ALEUTIAN LATERAL SYSTEM$138
- CAPRI$123
How this compares
$17,388 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 84 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New Jersey.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 99 | $843 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 132 | $657 |
| Methylprednisolone | 81 | $440 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 57 | $242 |
| Ibuprofen | 18 | $139 |
| Meloxicam | 61 | $121 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Brick
- Joseph MarsicanoBrick$8K
- Kristen RadcliffSomers Point$390K
- James SanfilippoMoorestown$380K
- Justin KubeckToms River$309K
- Ramil BhatnagarManasquan$301K
- Jason LowensteinMorristown$294K
- Steven KirshnerMarlton$226K
- Gordon DonaldEatontown$167K
- Grigory GoldbergOcean$161K
- Ki HwangWayne$147K
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.