Has Anuj Patel, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $122,421 in general payments to Anuj Patel, MD across 312 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Anuj Patel, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Anuj Patel, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Anuj Patel, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Hiram, GANPI 1912340613

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (57.2%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 42.3% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $70,249, more than ten times the $4,816 reported in 2019.

$122,421in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 312 payments — averaging $392.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$52K
Stryker$32K
Medtronic$28K
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$4K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$4K
Johnson & Johnson$571
plus $1K from 10 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$70,06357%
Speaking & faculty fees$20,13816%
Travel & lodging$16,36013%
Food & beverage$15,83313%
Entertainment$280%

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)	173	$51,724
Stryker	44	$32,334
Medtronic(2 entities)	45	$28,126
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc	3	$4,231
Alphatec Spine, Inc	16	$4,211
Johnson & Johnson	11	$571
Abbott	6	$334
Medacta USA, Inc.	2	$209
Si-bone, Inc.	3	$173
MML US, Inc.	2	$162
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$102
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$89
Biocomposites Inc	1	$86
Boston Scientific	1	$34
Amgen	1	$18
Sanara Medtech Inc.	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.

XLIF$39,887
SONOPET IQ$17,162
CORE$8,800
MagnetOs$4,231
UNID_PASS$3,577
Excelsius - GPS$3,413
EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$3,333
PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$2,773
Other - Miscellaneous$1,843
ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$1,598
TLIF$1,546
Pulse$1,370
PRESTIGE LP CERVICAL DISC SYSTEM$1,050
ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$849
ALIF$759
CREO$743
ANATOMIC PEEK PTC CERVICAL FUSION SYSTEM$600
AVS NAVIGATOR$291
Excelsius3D Imaging System$272
INVICTUS OPEN$245

How this compares

$122,421 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 57 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$196,698

Medicare patients

176

Services billed

835

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	114	$1,185
Oxycodone Hcl	117	$704
Naproxen	71	$452
Diclofenac Sodium	13	$236
Diazepam	65	$197
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	21	$136
Methocarbamol	17	$132
Methylprednisolone	19	$126
Tramadol Hcl	25	$108
Meloxicam	36	$78

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Hiram

John HellerAtlanta$4.2M
Scott BodenAtlanta$1.5M
Justin BundyAugusta$1.4M
John RheeAtlanta$1.1M
Tapan DaftariAustell$759K
Brad PrybisStockbridge$659K
Paul JeffordsAtlanta$651K
Raphael RoybalSavannah$400K
Hewatt SimsDouglas$376K
James MalcolmMarietta$295K

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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.

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