Anirudh Gowd, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Sacramento, CANPI 1043873235
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $10,298 of the $14,857 with a category attached, or 69.3%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 31.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $10,559, more than ten times the $54 reported in 2022. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $17,657.
Across 83 payments — averaging $179.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$5K
- Globus Medical$3K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$3K
- Stryker$1K
- Synthes GmbH$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$895
- plus $392 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$10,29869%
- Food & beverage$4,26929%
- Education$2902%
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 | 30 | $4,641 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 23 | $3,312 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 7 | $3,128 |
| Stryker | 8 | $1,376 |
| Synthes GmbH | 2 | $1,114 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $895 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 4 | $154 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $54 |
| Piedmont Plus Innovation | 2 | $52 |
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.
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$3,234
- Other - Miscellaneous$2,851
- Excelsius - GPS$2,009
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$693
- Modulus$403
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$373
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$249
- MEDTRONIC REUSABLE INSTRUMENTS$218
- RISE$164
- OSTEOCOOL RF ABLATION SYSTEM$152
- AttraX$129
- UNID_PASS$117
- XLIF$109
- RELINE$107
- ALIF$107
- Invictus MIS$105
- INVICTUS OPEN$105
How this compares
$14,857 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ondansetron Hcl | 22 | $87 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Sacramento
- Eric KlinebergSacramento$996K
- Hyun BaeSanta Monica$56.8M
- Choll KimSan Diego$4M
- Stacey BedermanOrange$3.7M
- Gregory Mundisla Jolla$3.3M
- Paul SlosarDaly City$3.1M
- Babak Barcohanavan Nuys$2.9M
- Neelakantan AnandLos Angeles$2.9M
- Sanjay KhuranaMarina del Rey$2.3M
- Neville AlleyneOceanside$2.2M
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.