David Nathan, MD
Neurosurgery · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1194731240
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 109 payments — averaging $113.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cerapedics Inc.$6K
- Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- Boston Scientific$563
- GS Solutions, Inc.$538
- Camber Spine Technologies LLC$525
- plus $1K from 7 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $49,567 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.
- GS Solutions, Inc.$149K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,50012%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,50012%
- Travel & lodging$1,86815%
- Food & beverage$7,41060%
- Education$651%
- Gifts$440%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cerapedics Inc. | 25 | $6,252 |
| Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC | 5 | $1,979 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 47 | $1,396 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $563 |
| GS Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $538 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 8 | $525 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 4 | $349 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $307 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 3 | $209 |
| Abbott | 5 | $130 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus | 1 | $81 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $47 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 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.
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$11,564
- ACTIVA$452
- PRODISC C$307
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$228
- VERCISE$211
- FlareHawk$132
- Medical Device$107
- GENERAL DBS$102
- SenSight$102
How this compares
Too few neurosurgery providers in Utahto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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.
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.