Christie Mina, MD
Neurological Surgery · Greenville, SCNPI 1194737726
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $10,293 of the $13,475 with a category attached, or 76.4%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 34.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $3,999 and has fallen 50.4% since, to $1,985 in 2025.
Across 176 payments — averaging $76.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$5K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$4K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Globus Medical$542
- Nevro Corp.$506
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$469
- plus $2K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,18224%
- Food & beverage$10,29376%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 91 | $4,678 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 7 | $3,515 |
| Boston Scientific | 29 | $1,802 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 10 | $542 |
| Nevro Corp. | 7 | $506 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 5 | $469 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $406 |
| Abbott | 6 | $370 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 2 | $226 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $207 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $155 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 2 | $129 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| Wound Management Technologies, Inc | 1 | $104 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| GT Medical Technologies, Inc | 1 | $56 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Smith+Nephew | 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.
- Other - Miscellaneous$3,290
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$792
- VANTA ADAPTIVESTIM$553
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$484
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$415
- Senza$366
- CellerateRx$311
- ADAPTIVESTIM$261
- ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$247
- INCEPTIV$235
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$222
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$150
- O-ARM-ST$146
- Omnia$140
- RESTORE$136
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$126
- PROFICIENT POSTERIOR CERVICAL SPINE SYSTEM$124
- EXPAREL$116
- ELSA$110
- SYMPHONY$106
How this compares
$13,475 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 114 neurological surgery providers in South Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 233 | $3,429 |
| Celecoxib | 40 | $2,965 |
| Naloxone Hcl | 26 | $1,680 |
| Methocarbamol | 109 | $1,452 |
| Pregabalin | 20 | $543 |
| Baclofen | 41 | $542 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 104 | $475 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 44 | $419 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 44 | $396 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 27 | $324 |
| Carbamazepine ErCarbamazepine | 11 | $271 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 22 | $193 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 24 | $153 |
| Meloxicam | 59 | $142 |
| Methylprednisolone | 27 | $120 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Greenville
- Jan Vargas MachajGreenville$207K
- James WigintonGreenville$18K
- Tyler SparksGreenville$16K
- Samuel AsanteGreenville$12K
- Phillip HodgeGreenville$10K
- Sharon WebbGreenville$5K
- Earl TroupGreenville$3K
- Alejandro SpiottaCharleston$894K
- David JonesRock Hill$540K
- Sabino DagostinoLadson$425K
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.