Wylie Lopez, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Manasquan, NJNPI 1447609748
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (57.9%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 48.7% of the total.
Across 102 payments — averaging $123.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$6K
- Medtronic$1K
- Stryker$987
- Johnson & Johnson$944
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$783
- Synthes GmbH$721
- plus $2K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,25018%
- Travel & lodging$3,05124%
- Food & beverage$7,27558%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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(2 entities) | 32 | $6,126 |
| Medtronic | 11 | $1,155 |
| Stryker | 10 | $987 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $944 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 6 | $783 |
| Synthes GmbH | 1 | $721 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 9 | $370 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $172 |
| Axis Spine Technologies Inc. | 2 | $161 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $153 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| Synaptive Medical Inc. | 1 | $130 |
| Wenzel Spine, Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| Bioventus LLC | 5 | $106 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $100 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $74 |
| EBI, LLC | 1 | $68 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $68 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $16 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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.
- Quartex$876
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$805
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$593
- Other - Miscellaneous$501
- SERRATO$472
- ACP$430
- FIBERGRAFT BG Morsels$396
- XLIF$301
- VIPER$246
- SYMPHONY$243
- Direct Look$234
- Sable$155
- CAPSTONE PTC SPINAL SYSTEM$154
- ReActiv8$153
- Axis Spine Technologies ALIF Implant$150
- iFuse Implant$144
- ALTERA$140
- ALIF$140
- RELINE$140
- Mobi-C$138
How this compares
$12,576 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 62 | $359 |
| Meloxicam | 105 | $295 |
| Gabapentin | 37 | $285 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 42 | $251 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 56 | $113 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 19 | $29 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Manasquan
- Ramil BhatnagarManasquan$301K
- Kristen RadcliffSomers Point$390K
- James SanfilippoMoorestown$380K
- Justin KubeckToms River$309K
- Jason LowensteinMorristown$294K
- Steven KirshnerMarlton$226K
- Gordon DonaldEatontown$167K
- Grigory GoldbergOcean$161K
- Ki HwangWayne$147K
- James HaleTeaneck$128K
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.