Ali Araghi, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Sun City West, AZNPI 1912969635
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $114,913 of the $186,767 with a category attached, or 61.5%. 37 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alphatec Spine, Inc at 34.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $80,972 and has fallen 68.6% since, to $25,434 in 2025.
Across 419 payments — averaging $445.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$65K
- Stryker$43K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$31K
- Globus Medical$23K
- Amplify Surgical, Inc.$10K
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$4K
- plus $10K from 31 others
Across 43 payments — averaging $2601.78 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Spineart SA$75K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$19K
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$15K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$3K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$19,67211%
- Consulting fees$114,91362%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,9004%
- Travel & lodging$27,73515%
- Food & beverage$16,9479%
- Education$6000%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 81 | $64,851 |
| Stryker | 31 | $43,180 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 98 | $30,990 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 68 | $22,699 |
| Amplify Surgical, Inc. | 20 | $10,278 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 21 | $4,481 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 20 | $3,142 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 24 | $1,618 |
| Sivantage, Inc. | 1 | $600 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 1 | $600 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 8 | $441 |
| Corelink, LLC | 3 | $403 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $354 |
| Spineology Inc. | 2 | $341 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 2 | $252 |
| Trackx Technology, Inc. | 2 | $250 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus | 2 | $237 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 5 | $234 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $204 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 3 | $202 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 1 | $189 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 5 | $150 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $144 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $142 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $138 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $81 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 1 | $67 |
| X-spine Systems, Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Bsn Medical Inc | 1 | $40 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $38 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $35 |
| GSK | 1 | $31 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $25 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $21 |
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.
- Other - Miscellaneous$40,543
- Invictus MIS$24,712
- LTP$18,728
- Solus ALIF$18,728
- LTX$18,728
- MONUMENT$18,471
- MAKO$14,250
- AIRO$13,185
- NANOSS ABGS FAMILY$12,000
- SIMMETRY IMPLANT, 12.5MM X 50MM$8,863
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$8,143
- Simmetry$6,250
- dualX$3,029
- SlMMETRY$2,224
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$1,950
- BIOLOGICS$1,463
- AERO-LL$1,311
- XLIF$1,296
- M6-C Artificial Cervical Disc$1,259
- Pulse$996
How this compares
$186,767 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Arizona.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Tizanidine Hcl | 72 | $475 |
| Gabapentin | 38 | $364 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 28 | $211 |
| Meloxicam | 60 | $177 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 11 | $143 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 11 | $118 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 14 | $93 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $47 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Sun City West
- Justin FieldPhoenix$2.3M
- John HallFlagstaff$783K
- Nima SalariPhoenix$741K
- Harvinder BediPhoenix$740K
- Michael ChangMesa$692K
- Todd DoerrScottsdale$614K
- Mark WangPhoenix$573K
- Dennis CrandallMesa$496K
- Terrence CrowderGilbert$421K
- Joshua AbramsPhoenix$311K
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.