Frank Phillips
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Chicago, ILNPI 1013996701
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $2,442,784 of the $3,893,927 with a category attached, or 62.7%. Globus Medical accounts for 67.2% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in IL 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 694 payments — averaging $5610.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$2.6M
- Si-bone, Inc.$871K
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$149K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$102K
- Stryker$72K
- Medtronic$59K
- plus $22K from 19 others
Across 25 payments — averaging $17,817 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.
- Spineart SA$314K
- Spineart USA Inc$63K
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$42K
- Globus Medical$26K
Across 21 payments — averaging $26,860 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$339K
- Augmedics Inc.$174K
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$51K
- Globus Medical$0
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,442,78463%
- Consulting fees$889,43923%
- Speaking & faculty fees$473,31612%
- Travel & lodging$67,0212%
- Food & beverage$21,2291%
- Gifts$810%
- Entertainment$570%
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) | 356 | $2,618,553 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 58 | $871,218 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 22 | $149,259 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 41 | $101,639 |
| Stryker | 63 | $72,067 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 58 | $58,963 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 38 | $9,043 |
| MML US, Inc. | 15 | $3,979 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $2,525 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 9 | $1,924 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 5 | $1,351 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 3 | $921 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 4 | $655 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $624 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $257 |
| Spineguard, Inc. | 1 | $170 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 2 | $165 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $149 |
| Circinus Medical Technology LLC | 1 | $128 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $106 |
| Theradaptive, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Adcura, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Hospira, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $19 |
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.
- COHERE$1,099,867
- AttraX$1,058,165
- Brigade$1,015,751
- COALESCE$1,001,014
- BASE$996,995
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$800,642
- ALIF$727,222
- XLIF$412,846
- TLIF$155,387
- Minuteman$148,065
- SpheRx$121,319
- M6-C$95,758
- iFuse Implant$68,764
- Excelsius - GPS$53,290
- MAKO$48,418
- Xvision$42,083
- CoRoent$26,771
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$15,000
- NexGen MIS$10,250
- MIS Screw System$7,500
How this compares
$3,893,927 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Illinois.
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Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Chicago
- Kern SinghChicago$1.3M
- Christopher DewaldChicago$1.2M
- Matthew ColmanChicago$334K
- Arash SayariChicago$174K
- Michael LeeChicago$107K
- Gregory LopezChicago$88K
- Howard AnChicago$82K
- Purnendu GuptaChicago$33K
- Karan PatelChicago$13K
- Neil MohileChicago$8K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.