Zachary Gordon, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Cleveland, OHNPI 1770771941
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $44,645 of the $72,670 with a category attached, or 61.4%. Globus Medical accounts for 86.3% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $21,182 and has fallen 91.0% since, to $1,905 in 2025.
Across 212 payments — averaging $342.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$63K
- Johnson & Johnson$6K
- Medtronic$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$535
- Arthrex$378
- Boston Scientific$248
- plus $495 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$44,64561%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,4003%
- Travel & lodging$20,18228%
- Food & beverage$5,4177%
- Education$260%
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) | 178 | $62,685 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $6,099 |
| Medtronic | 13 | $2,231 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $535 |
| Arthrex | 4 | $378 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $248 |
| Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $221 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $114 |
| Nexus Medical Technologies LLC | 2 | $95 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $23 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- XLIF$45,789
- TLIF$5,444
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$2,952
- RELINE$2,626
- VuePoint$2,200
- X-Core Mini$2,200
- ALIF$1,763
- AQUAMANTYS$1,300
- Excelsius - GPS$639
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$481
- CLYDESDALE PTC SPINAL SYSTEM$169
- CREO$146
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$137
- Excelsius3D Imaging System$124
- Pulse$118
- Stimulan$114
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$111
How this compares
$72,670 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Ohio.
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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 | 47 | $462 |
| Celecoxib | 11 | $127 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 23 | $101 |
| Methocarbamol | 15 | $97 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $62 |
| Prednisone | 48 | $57 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 13 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Cleveland
- Jason SavageCleveland$735K
- Jerold GurleyCleveland$649K
- Haariss IlyasCleveland$314K
- Saad ChaudharyCleveland$84K
- Taylor PaziukCleveland$32K
- Jonathan BeldingCleveland$15K
- Bilal ButtCleveland$13K
- Prashant RajanCleveland$9K
- Emily HuCleveland$9K
- Christina ChengCleveland$3K
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.