Winston Fong, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Oklahoma City, OKNPI 1548478696
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $614,435 of the $758,367 with a category attached, or 81.0%. Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 93.8% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $252,823, 7.1 times the $35,798 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in OK 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 188 payments — averaging $4033.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$711K
- Aurora Spine, Inc.$34K
- Nanohive Medical LLC$8K
- Evolution Spine, LLC$2K
- Corelink, LLC$2K
- Si-bone, Inc.$689
- plus $2K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$614,43581%
- Consulting fees$113,54115%
- Travel & lodging$26,4443%
- Food & beverage$3,9471%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 126 | $711,120 |
| Aurora Spine, Inc. | 9 | $33,572 |
| Nanohive Medical LLC | 2 | $7,535 |
| Evolution Spine, LLC | 2 | $2,000 |
| Corelink, LLC | 2 | $1,875 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 10 | $689 |
| Arthrex | 8 | $388 |
| Pylant Medical | 7 | $369 |
| Spineology Inc. | 2 | $207 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $140 |
| Stryker | 3 | $138 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $84 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $66 |
| UCB, Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $33 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Abbott | 1 | $22 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $16 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $15 |
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.
- IdentiTi$582,529
- Other - Miscellaneous$90,264
- EOS$33,572
- LIF$14,962
- Solus ALIF$11,066
- SafeOp$8,125
- Skye Cervical Plates and Cages$2,000
- Battalion TLIF - PC$1,000
- MULTIPLE$672
- ALIF$500
- Whistler Pedicle Screw System$500
- Solanas$164
- iFuse Implant$147
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$140
- Vyrsa V1$140
How this compares
$758,367 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 21 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Oklahoma.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 260 | $4,238 |
| Gabapentin | 407 | $3,651 |
| Baclofen | 185 | $2,172 |
| Pregabalin | 115 | $2,130 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 135 | $1,831 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 131 | $1,566 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 120 | $1,558 |
| Etodolac | 35 | $1,129 |
| Meloxicam | 208 | $789 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 76 | $609 |
| Calcitonin-SalmonCalcitonin,salmon,synthetic | 11 | $565 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 44 | $498 |
| Methylprednisolone | 29 | $239 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 42 | $238 |
| Methocarbamol | 13 | $178 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Oklahoma City
- Cheng-Lun SooOklahoma City$327K
- Brett BralyOklahoma City$279K
- Jeffrey MooreOklahoma City$198K
- Kevin WileyOklahoma City$39K
- Cody GriffinOklahoma City$21K
- Cameron ShiraziOklahoma City$15K
- Santaram VallurupalliOklahoma City$5K
- Scott de la GarzaOklahoma City$4K
- Timothy PuckettOklahoma City$130
- Jeffrey SchimandleOklahoma City$17
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.