Wilson Asfora
Neurological Surgery · Miami, FLNPI 1194706754
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,334,286 of the $1,338,340 with a category attached, or 99.7%. Medtronic accounts for 96.4% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among neurological surgery clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 27 payments — averaging $49,568 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$1.3M
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$48K
- Stryker$169
- Spineguard, Inc.$91
- Abbott$73
- 4web, Inc.$55
- plus $114 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,334,286100%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,8660%
- Food & beverage$1,1880%
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) | 12 | $1,290,122 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $47,716 |
| Stryker | 2 | $169 |
| Spineguard, Inc. | 2 | $91 |
| Abbott | 1 | $73 |
| 4web, Inc. | 2 | $55 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $50 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Captiva Spine Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $14 |
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.
- ACTIVA$3,244
- SYNCHROMED$2,995
- MYPTM$2,866
- RESTORE$2,866
- O-ARM-Spine$106
How this compares
$1,338,340 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 556 neurological surgery providers in Florida.
Other neurological surgery in Miami
- Eric PetersonMiami$10.1M
- Michael WangMiami$2.2M
- Steven VanniMiami$1.1M
- Timur UrakovMiami$652K
- Samuel GoldsmitMiami$519K
- Robert StarkeMiami$302K
- Ian CoteMiami$231K
- Michael IvanMiami$225K
- James GuestMiami$155K
- Stephen ParkerJacksonville$18.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.