Arsalaan Salehani, MD
Neurological Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1891158366
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,414 of the $7,585 with a category attached, or 71.4%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 52.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $4,608 and has fallen 77.8% since, to $1,025 in 2025.
Across 105 payments — averaging $72.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$4K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Globus Medical$499
- Medtronic$279
- Abbott$255
- Spineology Inc.$207
- plus $981 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,02127%
- Food & beverage$5,41471%
- Education$1502%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 30 | $4,015 |
| Boston Scientific | 28 | $1,349 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 9 | $499 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $279 |
| Abbott | 5 | $255 |
| Spineology Inc. | 5 | $207 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $207 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $172 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $136 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 3 | $88 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 1 | $79 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $74 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $73 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $17 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $17 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$1,867
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$563
- PROCLAIM$185
- ALEUTIAN INTERBODY SYSTEMS$170
- ES2 SPINAL SYSTEM$169
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$164
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$158
- XIA 3$154
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$150
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$148
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$148
- TRITANIUM$145
- Vyrsa V1$134
- Senza$120
- Modulus$117
- CHESAPEAKE STABILIZATION SYSTEM$114
- TLIF$108
How this compares
$7,585 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 97 neurological surgery providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pregabalin | 63 | $553 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 93 | $472 |
| Methocarbamol | 43 | $398 |
| Meloxicam | 87 | $253 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 12 | $199 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 20 | $159 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 35 | $147 |
| Gabapentin | 20 | $111 |
| Methylprednisolone | 16 | $96 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 24 | $70 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Birmingham
- Mark HadleyBirmingham$104K
- Andrew ErwoodBirmingham$85K
- Marshall HollandBirmingham$81K
- Jakub GodzikBirmingham$56K
- Adnan ShahidBirmingham$50K
- Jasmine ThumBirmingham$39K
- Jessica BentleyBirmingham$27K
- John FiveashBirmingham$12K
- Joshua MenendezBirmingham$11K
- Zenko HrynkiwBirmingham$8K
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.