Christopher Good
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Reston, VANPI 1568593390
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,182,704 of the $1,678,196 with a category attached, or 70.5%. Medtronic accounts for 86.4% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $365,224 and has fallen 58.7% since, to $150,793 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in VA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 487 payments — averaging $3445.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$1.4M
- Stryker$162K
- Augmedics Inc.$40K
- VB Spine LLC$26K
- Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC$267
- Centinel Spine, LLC$240
- plus $463 from 8 others
Across 33 payments — averaging $72,427 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.
- Medtronic$2.4M
- Globus Medical$26K
Across 7 payments — averaging $40,290 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Augmedics Inc.$282K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,182,70470%
- Consulting fees$180,96111%
- Speaking & faculty fees$258,96615%
- Travel & lodging$36,0012%
- Food & beverage$9,1641%
- Ownership interest$10,4001%
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) | 374 | $1,449,258 |
| Stryker | 56 | $161,919 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 32 | $39,811 |
| VB Spine LLC | 9 | $26,239 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 5 | $267 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 2 | $240 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus | 1 | $191 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $121 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $57 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $30 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Abbott | 1 | $15 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $14 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Xvision$196,034
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$138,458
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$136,317
- MazorX - Renaissance$111,662
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$76,570
- O-ARM-ST$58,264
- CASCADIA$24,661
- CD HORIZON$20,214
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$5,350
- GENERAL K2M PRODUCT DISCUSSION$4,500
- ClosureRFS$4,352
- Vulcan Spinal System$3,125
- ALEUTIAN INTERBODY SYSTEMS$3,000
- BACS$1,500
- MIDAS REX$1,110
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$1,078
- LITE PLATE SYSTEM$600
- UNID_PASS$299
- PRODISC L$140
- ACTIVL$133
How this compares
$1,678,196 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 43 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Virginia.
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Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Reston
- Colin HainesReston$700K
- Ehsan JaziniReston$502K
- Michael HaszReston$31K
- Dhruv PatederReston$16K
- Thomas SchulerReston$7K
- Jed VanichkachornRichmond$2.3M
- John SimpsonRichmond$880K
- Francis ShenCharlottesville$432K
- Jeffrey CarlsonNewport News$295K
- Thomas SciosciaRichmond$274K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.