Zachary Hickman, MD
Neurological Surgery · Elmhurst, NYNPI 1376782219
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $6,939 of the $10,707 with a category attached, or 64.8%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alphatec Spine, Inc at 50.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,826 and has fallen 60.1% since, to $1,526 in 2025.
Across 56 payments — averaging $191.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$5K
- Stryker$2K
- Omniscient Neurotechnology America Ltd$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$359
- Johnson & Johnson$232
- plus $556 from 7 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $10,358 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.$31K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,93965%
- Food & beverage$3,76835%
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 | 11 | $5,382 |
| Stryker | 15 | $1,907 |
| Omniscient Neurotechnology America Ltd | 7 | $1,200 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $1,071 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 8 | $359 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $232 |
| Irras USA, Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Ossdsign USA Incorporated | 1 | $142 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $92 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $80 |
| Ceribell, Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $38 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Other - Miscellaneous$4,524
- N/A$1,170
- Quicktome$1,163
- IdentiTi$599
- EVEREST XT$228
- Invictus MIS$192
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$145
- NAVIGATOR$121
- CONFIDENCE SPINAL CEMENT SYSTEM$106
How this compares
$10,707 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 446 neurological surgery providers in New York.
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.
Other neurological surgery in Elmhurst
- Ryan DenhaeseWilliamsville$1.9M
- J MoccoNew York$1.6M
- Adnan SiddiquiWilliamsville$1.5M
- Leo HopkinsBuffalo$1.2M
- Aziz Basem QandahNew Hartford$1.1M
- Alejandro BerensteinNew York$1.1M
- Darryl LauNew York$915K
- Mark BilskyNew York$903K
- John PollinaWilliamsville$661K
- Michael GroffRochester$559K
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.