Life Spine, Inc.: 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
- $3.5M
- Providers paid
- 460
- Transactions
- 2,763
- Average per transaction
- $1,265
The average per transaction — $1,265 — 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Indiana | $1,110,252 | 31.8% |
| California | $431,197 | 12.3% |
| Rhode Island | $349,412 | 10.0% |
| Texas | $236,558 | 6.8% |
| Virginia | $236,294 | 6.8% |
| Florida | $183,997 | 5.3% |
| Massachusetts | $173,182 | 5.0% |
| Georgia | $131,008 | 3.7% |
| New York | $106,648 | 3.1% |
| North Carolina | $66,329 | 1.9% |
| Mississippi | $63,444 | 1.8% |
| Oklahoma | $52,460 | 1.5% |
| Illinois | $49,978 | 1.4% |
| Wyoming | $49,345 | 1.4% |
| Kansas | $42,134 | 1.2% |
| Connecticut | $37,493 | 1.1% |
| Pennsylvania | $22,955 | 0.7% |
| Arizona | $21,181 | 0.6% |
| Arkansas | $19,041 | 0.5% |
| Washington | $16,078 | 0.5% |
| Alabama | $14,391 | 0.4% |
| Utah | $12,829 | 0.4% |
| Kentucky | $9,298 | 0.3% |
| South Carolina | $9,181 | 0.3% |
| Idaho | $8,674 | 0.2% |
| Maryland | $8,096 | 0.2% |
| Ohio | $7,275 | 0.2% |
| New Jersey | $6,184 | 0.2% |
| Louisiana | $5,139 | 0.1% |
| Michigan | $4,870 | 0.1% |
| Colorado | $2,314 | 0.1% |
| Tennessee | $2,310 | 0.1% |
| Iowa | $2,120 | 0.1% |
| Nevada | $1,583 | 0.0% |
| Minnesota | $500 | 0.0% |
| Wisconsin | $444 | 0.0% |
| North Dakota | $363 | 0.0% |
| West Virginia | $214 | 0.0% |
| Missouri | $180 | 0.0% |
| New Hampshire | $176 | 0.0% |
| Nebraska | $148 | 0.0% |
| Puerto Rico | $139 | 0.0% |
| Oregon | $73 | 0.0% |
| New Mexico | $31 | 0.0% |
Products named in Life Spine, Inc.'s payments
The drugs and devices most often named as the product a payment related to. A meal at a presentation about a product counts here, so this tracks what the company promotes as much as what it sells.
- ProLift$491,807
- ARx$358,396
- SIMpact$292,798
- ProLift Lateral$208,251
- AVATAR MINIMALLY INVASIVE SPINAL SYSTEM$205,318
- CENTRIC - T RETRACTOR$181,709
- Dyna-Link Ti$168,502
- ProLift Micro$123,906
- Dyna-Link Ti Barbs$100,200
- ProLift Lateral Helo$91,483
- ProLift Pivot$87,223
- ProLift Micro Tube Access$87,127
- TruLift$84,165
- Lateral Mass Cage$83,333
- MIS Retractor$75,000