Chinedu Nwasike, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Las Vegas, NVNPI 1811302102
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (43.0%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.4%. 2025 is the largest year on record at $10,621, 6.6 times the $1,611 reported in 2019.
Across 278 payments — averaging $149.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$7K
- Medtronic$7K
- Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$6K
- Nexxt Spine LLC$6K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$4K
- Globus Medical$3K
- plus $7K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,80012%
- Travel & lodging$17,77443%
- Food & beverage$17,92043%
- Education$1,0412%
- Entertainment$1240%
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 | 78 | $7,256 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 55 | $7,022 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 9 | $6,428 |
| Nexxt Spine LLC | 29 | $6,077 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 16 | $4,202 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 31 | $3,491 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 9 | $1,771 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 17 | $1,160 |
| Goode Surgical Inc | 3 | $978 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $786 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 5 | $448 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $322 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $288 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $285 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $281 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $186 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $169 |
| Abbott | 2 | $168 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $160 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 1 | $149 |
| VB Spine LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $12 |
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.
- MagnetOs$6,184
- Other - Miscellaneous$3,105
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,758
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$1,694
- Nexxt Spine Product Technology$1,517
- XLIF$1,456
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$1,314
- Connexx System$1,263
- iFuse Implant$1,143
- Nexxt Matrixx Systems$962
- O-ARM-ST$944
- Saxxony System$894
- Nexxt Matrixx SA ALIF System$894
- Connexx Systems$621
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$620
- SI System$606
- Spine-None$438
- NONE$415
- INTELLIS$371
- Matrixx Cervical System$352
How this compares
$41,660 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 30 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Nevada.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 16 | $87 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Las Vegas
- Kornelis PoelstraLas Vegas$2.2M
- George ElkanichLas Vegas$322K
- John ThalgottLas Vegas$320K
- Mark KabinsLas Vegas$118K
- Hugh BassewitzLas Vegas$54K
- Daniel LeeLas Vegas$52K
- Kevin DebiparshadLas Vegas$37K
- Andrew LeeLas Vegas$31K
- Edward AndersonLas Vegas$14K
- Daniel LecavalierLas Vegas$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.