Adam Kanter
Neurological Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1770791709
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 374 payments — averaging $6906.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$1.8M
- Zimmer Biomet$401K
- Highridge Medical LLC$316K
- Zimvie Inc.$32K
- Stryker$32K
- Medtronic$8K
- plus $6K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,133,34144%
- Consulting fees$1,210,02547%
- Speaking & faculty fees$178,8037%
- Travel & lodging$16,6411%
- Food & beverage$13,8561%
- Education$5470%
- Entertainment$2180%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 173 | $1,789,793 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 12 | $400,563 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 13 | $315,687 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 14 | $31,900 |
| Stryker | 41 | $31,701 |
| Medtronic | 27 | $7,800 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 13 | $2,827 |
| AbbVie | 21 | $390 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 2 | $361 |
| MML US, Inc. | 3 | $321 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 12 | $265 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $230 |
| Monteris Medical Corporation | 1 | $185 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC | 7 | $136 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 4 | $97 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 4 | $94 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $85 |
| Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $70 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Amgen | 2 | $31 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $20 |
| Argenx US, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Tanabe Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Abbott | 1 | $16 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- XLIF$1,137,036
- Timberline$399,520
- Polaris 4.75 Spinal System$294,295
- TLIF$281,167
- PLIF$200,000
- Modulus$150,235
- TrellOss-C SA$39,276
- Spine-None$13,903
- Pulse$6,940
- Other - Miscellaneous$2,229
- Excelsius - GPS$2,122
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$1,280
- ALIF$1,205
- ADAPTIX INTERBODY SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$800
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$800
- ZEVO ANTERIOR CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$800
- MAST QUADRANT RETRACTOR SYSTEM$800
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$600
- DIVERGENCE ANTERIOR CERVICAL FUSION SYSTEM$600
- TM NextGen$500
How this compares
$2,582,962 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 390 neurological surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Other neurological surgery in Pittsburgh
- David OkonkwoPittsburgh$2.5M
- Bradley GrossPittsburgh$1M
- Constantinos HadjipanayisPittsburgh$564K
- David HamiltonPittsburgh$404K
- Paul GardnerPittsburgh$179K
- Alexander YuPittsburgh$163K
- Taylor AbelPittsburgh$153K
- Jorge Gonzalez-MartinezPittsburgh$146K
- Jody LeonardoPittsburgh$116K
- Matthew ShepardPittsburgh$100K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.