Anshum Sood
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Saint Louis, MONPI 1972130615
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (53.0%), travel and lodging and grants — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 25 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.6%. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $6,422 and has fallen 74.8% since, to $1,619 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in MO, where the typical reported total is $12,644.
Across 136 payments — averaging $96.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$3K
- Stryker$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Encore Medical, LP$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$830
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$719
- plus $4K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$981%
- Grants$1,25010%
- Travel & lodging$4,47434%
- Food & beverage$6,91653%
- Education$2622%
- Charitable contribution$570%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 36 | $2,555 |
| Stryker | 31 | $1,933 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $1,613 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 2 | $1,524 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 8 | $830 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 6 | $719 |
| Medtronic | 10 | $696 |
| Orthopediatrics Corp. | 6 | $495 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $387 |
| Globus Medical | 8 | $334 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $326 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $242 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $191 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $152 |
| Axogen | 1 | $149 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $147 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $142 |
| Lifenet Health | 2 | $138 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 2 | $130 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| Clariance, Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $82 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $18 |
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.
- DJO SURGICAL$1,524
- Avenir$1,365
- INTEGRA$931
- Geminus$504
- Align$504
- IJS$504
- Implate$504
- TRIATHLON$439
- Affixus$405
- CMF$357
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$310
- PRIMATRIX$310
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$303
- INFINITY$269
- PHALINX$171
- TrueLok$167
- Ankle Compression Nailing System$167
- Other - Miscellaneous$152
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$149
- MAKO$149
How this compares
$13,057 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 53 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Missouri.
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Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Saint Louis
- Munish GuptaSaint Louis$1M
- Jacob BuchowskiSaint Louis$658K
- Brian NeumanSaint Louis$106K
- R Adams CowleySaint Louis$53K
- Michael ReiterSaint Louis$37K
- Mark LambrechtsSaint Louis$37K
- Nicholas PallottaSaint Louis$21K
- Matthew GoodwinSaint Louis$20K
- John ClohisySaint Louis$19K
- Diana DoulehSaint Louis$18K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.