William Stevens, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Phoenix, AZNPI 1356344824
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $7,613 of the $11,018 with a category attached, or 69.1%. Globus Medical accounts for 67.0% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,534 and has fallen 66.0% since, to $1,203 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in AZ, where the typical reported total is $49,864.
Across 87 payments — averaging $126.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$7K
- Mirus, LLC$1K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$961
- Johnson & Johnson$792
- Si-bone, Inc.$313
- Medtronic$154
- plus $201 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$7,61369%
- Food & beverage$3,40431%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 47 | $7,383 |
| Mirus, LLC | 2 | $1,214 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 12 | $961 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $792 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $313 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $154 |
| Stryker | 1 | $90 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 6 | $50 |
| Neo Spine USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Abbott | 1 | $20 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- ELSA$2,999
- EUROPA Pedicle Screw System$1,214
- CYGNUS Anterior Cervical Plate$1,214
- MiRus 3DR Lumbar Interbody System$1,214
- CREO$739
- CALIBER$611
- Vu aPOD Prime NanoMetalene$409
- Mariner$409
- Ventura NanoMetalene$409
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$334
- CREO MIS Stabilization System$209
- COALITION$173
- Shoreline$166
- HEDRON IA$162
- CREO Deformity$159
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$154
- iFuse Implant$140
- Spine & Trauma 3D Navigation$126
- SYMPHONY$126
- SYNAPSE$126
How this compares
$11,018 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Arizona.
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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 | 84 | $768 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 23 | $182 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 18 | $135 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Phoenix
- Justin FieldPhoenix$2.3M
- Nima SalariPhoenix$741K
- Harvinder BediPhoenix$740K
- Mark WangPhoenix$573K
- Joshua AbramsPhoenix$311K
- Louis RappoportPhoenix$236K
- David JacksonPhoenix$189K
- Kunwar KhalsaPhoenix$182K
- Norman ChutkanPhoenix$114K
- Shaleen ViraPhoenix$109K
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.