Ashish Sahai, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Boca Raton, FLNPI 1427100221
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (46.4%), royalties or licence payments and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 43 manufacturers reported payments, led by Spinal Elements, Inc. at 41.2% of the total. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 738 payments — averaging $1361.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$413K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$291K
- Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus$61K
- Baxter Healthcare$41K
- Amendia, Inc.$39K
- Curiteva, Inc.$35K
- plus $125K from 37 others
Across 32 payments — averaging $9004.31 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$262K
- Seikagaku Corporation$27K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$434,62743%
- Consulting fees$466,21346%
- Speaking & faculty fees$11,5001%
- Travel & lodging$53,4655%
- Food & beverage$31,1963%
- Education$6,9601%
- Gifts$2900%
- Entertainment$4640%
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.
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.
- MUST$135,583
- OMEGALIF$116,124
- Medical Device$104,733
- MYSPINE$64,319
- FlareHawk$53,399
- DIAMOND$53,104
- Medicle Devices$43,866
- MECTALIF$38,790
- Spine Ortho, PA$38,284
- OMGLIP$33,421
- MUST MINI Set Screw$32,881
- Medical Devices$32,475
- MagnetOs$28,097
- FLOSEAL$25,778
- KATANA$19,000
- LineSider$16,002
- ProLift Micro Tube Access$11,564
- Mecta-C Cervical Cages$11,184
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$10,606
- KARMA$10,000
How this compares
$1,004,715 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 159 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Florida.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 144 | $3,033 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 35 | $374 |
| Gabapentin | 43 | $356 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 39 | $208 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 41 | $153 |
| Meloxicam | 42 | $137 |
| Methylprednisolone | 15 | $94 |
| Pregabalin | 14 | $80 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Boca Raton
- Robert NortonBoca Raton$695K
- Nathaniel LowenBoca Raton$50K
- Harry ShufflebargerMiami$3.5M
- Paul KellerMelbourne$3.4M
- Thomas SweeneySarasota$2.3M
- Geoffrey CronenTampa$2.2M
- James BillysOdessa$1.9M
- Mark DekutoskiDestin$1.8M
- Farhan SiddiqiOdessa$1.7M
- Samuel JosephSafety Harbor$1.7M
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.