Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

LEO REUBEN SPECTOR

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Orthopaedic Surgery

NPI
1639100506
CMS profile
255579
Location
CHARLOTTE, NC

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$113,680.29

  • Reported across 207 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$9,496.71

18 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Consulting Fee $5,250.00 6
Travel and Lodging $3,631.97 2
Food and Beverage $614.74 10

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Peerless Surgical Inc. $3,781.96 3
Cerapedics Inc. $3,000.00 2
Spine Wave, Inc. $2,270.57 5
Medtronic, Inc. $299.75 5
Globus Medical, Inc. $120.43 2
Arthrex, Inc. $24.00 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $9,076.66 17
PY2019 $21,461.77 35
PY2020 $3,908.30 6
PY2021 $16,932.78 12
PY2022 $24,050.61 68
PY2023 $28,753.46 51
PY2024 $9,496.71 18

Payment records · PY2024 (18)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Arthrex, Inc. $24.00 11/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1146570395 CMS
Cerapedics Inc. $2,400.00 02/15/2024 Consulting Fee Undisputed 01/23/2026 1133358719 CMS
Cerapedics Inc. $600.00 05/08/2024 Consulting Fee Undisputed 01/23/2026 1133358721 CMS
Globus Medical, Inc. $16.50 01/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1145009597 CMS
Globus Medical, Inc. $103.93 09/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1145009657 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $26.26 01/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119410570 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $16.51 03/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119410572 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $127.50 04/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119410574 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $24.52 05/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119410576 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $104.96 12/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119410578 CMS
Peerless Surgical Inc. $39.64 11/13/2024 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125525032 CMS
Peerless Surgical Inc. $149.99 11/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125525034 CMS
Peerless Surgical Inc. $3,592.33 11/13/2024 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125525036 CMS
Spine Wave, Inc. $500.00 01/18/2024 Consulting Fee Undisputed 01/23/2026 1147194573 CMS
Spine Wave, Inc. $750.00 02/12/2024 Consulting Fee Undisputed 01/23/2026 1147194575 CMS
Spine Wave, Inc. $500.00 05/15/2024 Consulting Fee Undisputed 01/23/2026 1147194579 CMS
Spine Wave, Inc. $20.57 11/21/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1147194571 CMS
Spine Wave, Inc. $500.00 11/21/2024 Consulting Fee Undisputed 01/23/2026 1147194577 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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