Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Mark Freeborn

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Kirkland, WA Medical Doctor

NPI 1821107756 CMS profile 173115

12039 Ne 128Th St Ste 500, Kirkland, WA 98034

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General payments

$1,791,407

885 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$9,757 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2024–2025

Through program year 2025, Mark Freeborn of Kirkland, WA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $1,791,407 across 885 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $9,757 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 97th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $292,391 118
2024 General $279,489 81
2023 General $594,142 157
2022 General $189,031 117
2021 General $201,351 143
2020 General $82,772 90
2019 General $152,231 179

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Mark Freeborn
  • Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine median
  • Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Mark Freeborn were reported at $292,391. 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.

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Year Mark Freeborn Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine median Middle half National median
2019 $152,231 $2,106 $337–$18,608 $163
2020 $82,772 $1,213 $156–$15,082 $114
2021 $201,351 $1,834 $271–$15,617 $132
2022 $189,031 $2,015 $320–$17,036 $149
2023 $594,142 $1,925 $336–$14,599 $160
2024 $279,489 $2,110 $341–$12,483 $164
2025 $292,391 $2,061 $347–$14,651 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. NuVasive, Inc. $1,209,302 623 payments
  2. Globus Medical, Inc. $570,376 191 payments
  3. Alphatec Spine, Inc $2,720 10 payments
  4. Summit Surgical Corp. $2,210 9 payments
  5. MML US, Inc. $1,931 13 payments
  6. Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation $1,206 9 payments
  7. Invictus Surgical Incorporated $1,009 5 payments
  8. Orthofix Medical, Inc. $1,006 10 payments
  9. Stryker Corporation $418 4 payments
  10. Medtronic, Inc. $417 3 payments
  11. Other $812 8 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $1,139,324 105 payments
  2. Royalty or License $425,000 5 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $195,172 482 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $20,241 288 payments
  5. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a non-accredited and noncertified continuing education program $10,000 2 payments
  6. Education $1,583 1 payment
  7. Entertainment $86 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. XLIF Spine/Spine Surgery $782,156 310 payments
  2. ALIF Spine/Spine Surgery $237,878 26 payments
  3. XLIF Spine/Spine Surgery $220,860 170 payments
  4. Pulse $178,459 34 payments
  5. COHERE $18,556 20 payments
  6. ALIF Spine/Spine Surgery $15,059 14 payments
  7. EXCELSIUS GPS $14,801 10 payments
  8. Bendini $3,600 1 payment
  9. RISE $3,498 5 payments
  10. ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System $2,456 4 payments
  11. Other $22,132 186 payments

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 · 2 drugs

Part D claims

36

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$349

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

0%

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 11.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Gabapentin Generic 25 $327
Prednisone Generic 11 $22

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 · 41 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$91,776

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

91

Average age 74

Services billed

244

43 women, 48 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
Arthritis 75%
High blood pressure 73%
Diabetes 35%
Depression 32%
Chronic kidney disease 29%
Ischemic heart disease 24%
Cancer 21%
Osteoporosis 21%

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

885 reported

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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.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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