David Xu, MD
Neurological Surgery · Columbus, OHNPI 1942564695
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (41.1%), royalties or licence payments and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Globus Medical accounts for 91.6% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among neurological surgery clinicians in OH 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 450 payments — averaging $584.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$241K
- Medtronic$16K
- Stryker$2K
- Si-bone, Inc.$2K
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$1K
- Icotec Medical Inc.$613
- plus $1K from 10 others
Across 30 payments — averaging $5323.10 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$58K
- Globus Medical$51K
- Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.$37K
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$14K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$100,00038%
- Consulting fees$108,10041%
- Travel & lodging$38,77215%
- Food & beverage$15,7406%
- Education$150%
- Gifts$1580%
- Entertainment$1330%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 331 | $240,928 |
| Medtronic | 57 | $15,825 |
| Stryker | 10 | $1,616 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 23 | $1,587 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 9 | $1,250 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 8 | $613 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 2 | $245 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $188 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $142 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 1 | $122 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $105 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $68 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 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.
- XLIF$205,859
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$10,454
- ELSA$7,000
- TLIF$3,316
- CREO 5.5$2,469
- CREO$2,424
- Pulse$2,210
- Excelsius - GPS$1,908
- ADAPTIX INTERBODY SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$1,649
- RELINE$1,563
- ALIF$1,232
- CREO MIS Stabilization System$1,187
- UNID_PASS$889
- iFuse Implant$874
- Quartex$623
- CASCADIA$597
- Sable$582
- CAVUX Cervical Cage$480
- CLYDESDALE$471
- ADVANCED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$422
How this compares
$262,919 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 301 neurological surgery providers in Ohio.
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 | 25 | $301 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Columbus
- Christian BonassoColumbus$656K
- Russell LonserColumbus$419K
- Chris KarasColumbus$339K
- Andrew GrossbachColumbus$213K
- Stephanus ViljoenColumbus$115K
- Patrick YoussefColumbus$96K
- Daniel PrevedelloColumbus$93K
- Shahid NimjeeColumbus$81K
- Vikram ChakravarthyColumbus$77K
- Taylor SommerColumbus$56K
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.