Has Gregory Poulter, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $995,426 in general payments to Gregory Poulter, MD across 730 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Gregory Poulter, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Gregory Poulter, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Gregory Poulter, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Indianapolis, INNPI 1740405273

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (39.5%), royalties or licence payments and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 89.1% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $300,980 and has fallen 83.0% since, to $51,267 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in IN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$995,426in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 730 payments — averaging $1363.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$887K
Stryker$79K
Surgical Theater. Inc.$27K
Zimmer Biomet$1K
Medicrea USA, Corp.$712
Zimvie Inc.$431
plus $260 from 4 others

$17,794in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 4 payments — averaging $4448.40 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$18K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$304,97731%
Consulting fees$200,91320%
Speaking & faculty fees$393,18839%
Travel & lodging$79,6208%
Food & beverage$16,2982%
Education$4310%

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(3 entities)	650	$887,067
Stryker	28	$79,294
Surgical Theater. Inc.	31	$26,518
Zimmer Biomet	11	$1,144
Medicrea USA, Corp.	4	$712
Zimvie Inc.	1	$431
Carlsmed, Inc.	1	$98
Arthrex	1	$90
Globus Medical	2	$42
Alphatec Spine, Inc	1	$31

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.

MAZOR X SYSTEM$129,659
MazorX - Renaissance$122,800
SAHARA STABILIZATION SYSTEM$48,952
CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$47,668
Mazor X Stealth Edition$41,736
UNID_PASS$32,485
SAHARA$29,847
CD HORIZON$26,762
DIVERGENCE-L ANTERIOR/OBLIQUE LUMBAR FUSION SYSTEM$20,000
O-ARM-ST$19,985
DIVERGENCE-L$18,002
O-ARM$15,115
CLYDESDALE$14,275
UNiD$8,071
ELEVATE SPINAL SYSTEM$7,500
StealthStation$7,200
PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$5,852
DIVERGENCE ANTERIOR CERVICAL FUSION SYSTEM$5,000
Adaptix$4,200
POWEREASE$2,700

How this compares

$995,426 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 48 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$139,715

Medicare patients

190

Services billed

670

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.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Indianapolis

David SchwartzIndianapolis$1.5M
Michael McMainsIndianapolis$686K
Kevin O NeillIndianapolis$108K
James ColeIndianapolis$64K
Michael CosciaIndianapolis$885
Philip SailerIndianapolis$294
John PetersIndianapolis$16
Robert HulerIndianapolis$14
Rick SassoCarmel$1.6M
Zeshan HyderCrown Point$1.1M

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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.

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