Choice Spine, LLC: payments to doctors
Reported under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act for Open Payments program years 2019–2025. Figures group every CMS reporting entity belonging to this corporate parent.
- Total reported
- $6.6M
- Providers paid
- 328
- Transactions
- 1,256
- Average per transaction
- $5,294
The average per transaction — $5,294 — is the number worth reading. A large total spread across hundreds of thousands of transactions is a company buying a great many modest meals at educational presentations. A large total across few transactions means consulting, speaking or royalty arrangements with a small number of physicians. The totals alone do not distinguish them.
Where the money went
| State | Total reported | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Georgia | $1,265,915 | 19.0% |
| Kentucky | $1,239,343 | 18.6% |
| California | $1,076,563 | 16.2% |
| Florida | $588,174 | 8.8% |
| New York | $511,937 | 7.7% |
| Tennessee | $446,479 | 6.7% |
| Massachusetts | $380,349 | 5.7% |
| Virginia | $378,859 | 5.7% |
| North Carolina | $234,073 | 3.5% |
| Michigan | $126,043 | 1.9% |
| South Carolina | $90,852 | 1.4% |
| New Jersey | $66,184 | 1.0% |
| Texas | $50,282 | 0.8% |
| Mississippi | $36,760 | 0.6% |
| Indiana | $31,438 | 0.5% |
| Ohio | $21,355 | 0.3% |
| Arkansas | $17,932 | 0.3% |
| Louisiana | $15,465 | 0.2% |
| Arizona | $12,541 | 0.2% |
| Wyoming | $11,895 | 0.2% |
| Oklahoma | $7,537 | 0.1% |
| District of Columbia | $6,230 | 0.1% |
| Alabama | $6,224 | 0.1% |
| Colorado | $4,943 | 0.1% |
| Kansas | $4,775 | 0.1% |
| Nevada | $4,256 | 0.1% |
| Idaho | $3,291 | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania | $2,541 | 0.0% |
| Connecticut | $2,264 | 0.0% |
| New Hampshire | $1,211 | 0.0% |
| Illinois | $1,103 | 0.0% |
| Maryland | $973 | 0.0% |
| Missouri | $337 | 0.0% |
| Nebraska | $251 | 0.0% |
| Washington | $223 | 0.0% |
| Minnesota | $123 | 0.0% |
| South Dakota | $71 | 0.0% |
| North Dakota | $59 | 0.0% |