Andrew Bachinskas
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Seattle, WANPI 1316325665
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,502 of the $5,780 with a category attached, or 60.6%. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 25.1% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in WA, where the typical reported total is $7,316.
Across 86 payments — averaging $67.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$1K
- Synthes GmbH$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$908
- Globus Medical$240
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$142
- plus $569 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,27839%
- Food & beverage$3,50261%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 31 | $1,450 |
| Synthes GmbH | 2 | $1,445 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 16 | $1,026 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $908 |
| Globus Medical | 4 | $240 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 4 | $142 |
| Stryker | 5 | $112 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| BD | 1 | $29 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $22 |
| Vertex | 1 | $22 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $15 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Amgen | 1 | $14 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- CONDUIT$826
- ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$324
- TRIALTIS$298
- INCEPTIV$174
- Vivigen MIS Delivery System$158
- Abiraterone acetate$149
- Expedium VERSE$148
- UNID_PASS$141
- SYMPHONY$140
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$126
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$123
How this compares
$5,780 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 61 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Washington.
See all orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Washington →
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 75 | $518 |
| Methocarbamol | 49 | $384 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 66 | $286 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 30 | $174 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 28 | $170 |
| Methylprednisolone | 27 | $146 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 20 | $104 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 36 | $96 |
| Pregabalin | 15 | $79 |
| Meloxicam | 16 | $61 |
| Lorazepam | 16 | $8 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Seattle
- Rajiv SethiSeattle$2.9M
- Richard BransfordSeattle$413K
- Jens ChapmanSeattle$394K
- Venu NemaniSeattle$199K
- Philip LouieSeattle$132K
- Nicholas SpinaSeattle$98K
- Farhan KarimSeattle$59K
- Haitao ZhouSeattle$48K
- Edward JungSeattle$35K
- Carlo BellabarbaSeattle$13K
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.