Anand Veeravagu, MD
Neurological Surgery · Palo Alto, CANPI 1386818284
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (55.4%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Globus Medical accounts for 83.5% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $366,405 and has fallen 72.1% since, to $102,289 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 724 payments — averaging $1710.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$1M
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$108K
- Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.$41K
- Medtronic$33K
- Stryker$12K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$9K
- plus $2K from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$685,74855%
- Consulting fees$423,00034%
- Speaking & faculty fees$30,0252%
- Travel & lodging$89,5267%
- Food & beverage$9,9161%
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) | 534 | $1,033,825 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 74 | $107,931 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 43 | $40,567 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 43 | $32,917 |
| Stryker | 15 | $12,207 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 8 | $9,002 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 2 | $1,500 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $165 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $43 |
| Abbott | 1 | $41 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Pulse$617,482
- ALIF$332,605
- XLIF$136,998
- Other - Miscellaneous$56,453
- Solus ALIF$43,032
- Battalion TLIF - PC$23,800
- OsteoCentric 4.0 x 130mm LOCKING BONE SCREW FASTENER ST$23,119
- LTP$22,194
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$20,300
- SafeOp$17,675
- MIDAS REX$10,148
- Unifi Technology$9,730
- EXPEDIUM$8,645
- IdentiTi$8,138
- BIOLOGICS$6,900
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$5,675
- TLIF$4,876
- TRITANIUM$4,684
- RAVINE LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$4,550
- YUKON$4,031
How this compares
$1,238,214 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 773 neurological surgery providers in California.
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 Palo Alto
- Atman DesaiPalo Alto$305K
- Gary SteinbergPalo Alto$278K
- Christopher AmesSan Francisco$7.1M
- Larry KhooLos Angeles$2.8M
- Samy AbdouSan Diego$2.4M
- Bret AbshireMurrieta$2.3M
- William TaylorSan Diego$2.1M
- Tooraj GravoriEncino$2M
- Ali MesiwalaRancho Cucamonga$1.5M
- Joseph OsorioSan Diego$1.3M
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.