Who Paid My Doc
Aaron Creek
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Miramar Beach, FL Medical Doctor
NPI 1265795918 CMS profile 1167697
7720 US Highway 98 W, Miramar Beach, FL 32550
General payments
$63,847
Research payments
$9,750
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$9,000
Through program year 2025, Aaron Creek of Miramar Beach, FL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $63,847 across 348 general payments and $9,750 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $9,000 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.
No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 74th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
9 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $6,540 | 29 | |
| 2025 | Research | $750 | 1 | |
| 2024 | General | $4,548 | 50 | |
| 2024 | Research | $9,000 | 2 | |
| 2023 | General | $2,219 | 39 | |
| 2022 | General | $12,403 | 68 | |
| 2021 | General | $1,304 | 34 | |
| 2020 | General | $16,027 | 30 | |
| 2019 | General | $20,805 | 98 |
Beside peers
- Aaron Creek
- Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine median
- Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Aaron Creek were reported at $6,540. Among 1,704 Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine profiles paid that year, the median was $2,061 and the middle half received between $347 and $14,651.
Show as a table
| Year | Aaron Creek | Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $20,805 | $2,106 | $337–$18,608 | $163 |
| 2020 | $16,027 | $1,213 | $156–$15,082 | $114 |
| 2021 | $1,304 | $1,834 | $271–$15,617 | $132 |
| 2022 | $12,403 | $2,015 | $320–$17,036 | $149 |
| 2023 | $2,219 | $1,925 | $336–$14,599 | $160 |
| 2024 | $4,548 | $2,110 | $341–$12,483 | $164 |
| 2025 | $6,540 | $2,061 | $347–$14,651 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Prescribing to Medicare patients
Part D · data year 2024 · 12 drugsPart D claims
847
Drug cost
$16,626
Branded share of claims
60.4%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | Brand | 304 | $9,377 | |
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen | Brand | 180 | $4,041 | |
| Oxycodone Hcl | Generic | 51 | $621 | |
| Gabapentin | Generic | 78 | $558 | |
| Morphine Sulfate Er Morphine Sulfate | Brand | 28 | $509 | |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | Generic | 55 | $473 | |
| Tramadol Hcl | Generic | 50 | $360 | |
| Zolpidem Tartrate | Generic | 14 | $153 | |
| Diazepam | Generic | 34 | $146 | |
| Methylprednisolone | Generic | 23 | $145 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 12 counted.
Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 18,934 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 64 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$458,849
Medicare patients
351
Services billed
1,423
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Arthritis | 75% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 34% | |
| Diabetes | 30% | |
| Depression | 26% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 25% | |
| COPD | 24% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 22% |
Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.
Records
351 reportedEvery payment, record by record
Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
What this means
U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.
An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.
Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.