Brian Goh, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Atlanta, GANPI 1629508866
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (38.5%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. at 49.3% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $15,725, more than ten times the $494 reported in 2021.
Across 92 payments — averaging $253.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.$12K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$5K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- United Orthopedics LLC$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Stryker$1K
- plus $2K from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,00039%
- Travel & lodging$8,31536%
- Food & beverage$6,04526%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 19 | $11,509 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 9 | $4,994 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 8 | $1,399 |
| United Orthopedics LLC | 5 | $1,191 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 14 | $1,047 |
| Stryker | 13 | $1,006 |
| Medtronic | 6 | $710 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 5 | $568 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $366 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 2 | $264 |
| Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $204 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $52 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 2 | $30 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
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.
- OsteoCentric 4.0 x 130mm LOCKING BONE SCREW FASTENER ST$11,262
- Other - Miscellaneous$4,567
- Teligen$1,345
- ACCOLADE$417
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$415
- LIF$324
- MagnetOs$264
- O-ARM$210
- MAKO$166
- Expedium VERSE$150
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$131
- VIPER$124
- CONDUIT$124
- FIBERGRAFT BG Morsels$124
- TRIATHLON$106
- TRIDENT$106
How this compares
$23,360 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 57 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Georgia.
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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 Hcl | 31 | $229 |
| Gabapentin | 19 | $209 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Atlanta
- John HellerAtlanta$4.2M
- Scott BodenAtlanta$1.5M
- John RheeAtlanta$1.1M
- Paul JeffordsAtlanta$651K
- Melanie KinchenAtlanta$254K
- Sangwook YoonAtlanta$227K
- Keith MichaelAtlanta$194K
- Krishna GumidyalaAtlanta$19K
- Plas JamesAtlanta$10K
- Douglass JohnsonAtlanta$7K
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.