Farhan Karim
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Seattle, WANPI 1154609337
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (45.8%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 33.9% of the total.
Across 300 payments — averaging $195.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$20K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$16K
- Johnson & Johnson$6K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$5K
- Globus Medical$4K
- Medtronic$3K
- plus $5K from 13 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $7690.00 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.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$15K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$26,90046%
- Travel & lodging$16,30428%
- Food & beverage$15,11826%
- Education$4171%
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 | 92 | $19,927 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 14 | $15,925 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 103 | $5,765 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 13 | $5,019 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 20 | $3,623 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 18 | $3,213 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 8 | $1,939 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 10 | $1,514 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 6 | $870 |
| Abbott | 4 | $341 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 3 | $289 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $86 |
| Choice Spine, LLC | 1 | $80 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| CTL Medical Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $22 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $19 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation 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.
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$9,273
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$9,000
- OZARK CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$9,000
- Other - Miscellaneous$3,833
- NIAGARA LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$3,175
- Shoreline ASC$1,700
- Mariner MIS$1,700
- Meridian$1,700
- ES2 SPINAL SYSTEM$1,513
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,505
- CD HORIZON$1,331
- VIPER$1,330
- NorthStar$1,235
- Regatta$1,084
- ELSA$926
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$854
- INDEPENDENCE$758
- Mariner$616
- XLIF$577
- Excelsius Robotics System$576
How this compares
$58,740 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 61 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Washington.
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- Venu NemaniSeattle$199K
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- Nicholas SpinaSeattle$98K
- Haitao ZhouSeattle$48K
- Edward JungSeattle$35K
- Carlo BellabarbaSeattle$13K
- Karina KatchkoSeattle$13K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.