Has Ahmer Ghori, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $219,731 in general payments to Ahmer Ghori, MD across 213 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Ahmer Ghori, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Ahmer Ghori, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Ahmer Ghori, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Fort Wayne, INNPI 1881914356

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (50.3%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Spineart SA at 35.3% of the total.

$219,731in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 213 payments — averaging $1031.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Spineart SA$77K
Spineart USA Inc$40K
The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education$37K
Zimmer Biomet$27K
Wenzel Spine, Inc.$15K
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$13K
plus $11K from 13 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$110,48050%
Consulting fees$53,22524%
Speaking & faculty fees$17,6758%
Travel & lodging$30,11614%
Food & beverage$8,2354%

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
Spineart SA	10	$77,462
Spineart USA Inc	44	$39,822
The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education	17	$37,031
Zimmer Biomet	41	$26,616
Wenzel Spine, Inc.	11	$14,809
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	32	$12,993
Theragen, Inc.	6	$5,106
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	24	$3,459
Camber Spine Technologies LLC	9	$1,077
Spinal Elements, Inc.	4	$347
Spine Wave, Inc.	4	$298
Stryker	3	$208
Nanovis LLC	2	$148
Nexxt Spine LLC	1	$113
Centinel Spine, LLC	1	$97
Cerapedics Inc.	1	$73
Carlsmed, Inc.	1	$43
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$14
Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC	1	$14

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.

How this compares

$219,731 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 48 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$161,032

Medicare patients

280

Services billed

803

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Mupirocin	96	$681
Prednisone	82	$281
Gabapentin	14	$150
Methylprednisolone	20	$128
Tizanidine Hcl	14	$103

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Fort Wayne

Kevin RahnFort Wayne$61K
Joshua WintersFort Wayne$1K
Robert ShugartFort Wayne$154
Michael ArataFort Wayne$25
Rick SassoCarmel$1.6M
David SchwartzIndianapolis$1.5M
Zeshan HyderCrown Point$1.1M
Gregory PoulterIndianapolis$995K
Nitin KhannaMunster$702K
Michael McMainsIndianapolis$686K

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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.

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