Has Gurpal Pannu, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,076 in general payments to Gurpal Pannu, MD across 64 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 Gurpal Pannu, 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 Gurpal Pannu, 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.

Gurpal Pannu, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Palos Hills, ILNPI 1437413960

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (43.6%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 58.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $4,254 and has fallen 87.1% since, to $549 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in IL, where the typical reported total is $12,158.

$7,076in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 64 payments — averaging $110.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$4K
Globus Medical$1K
VB Spine LLC$331
Medtronic$291
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$257
Si-bone, Inc.$213
plus $485 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,45035%
Food & beverage$3,08444%
Education$1,54222%

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	33	$4,147
Globus Medical	4	$1,352
VB Spine LLC	3	$331
Medtronic(2 entities)	9	$291
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	4	$257
Si-bone, Inc.	4	$213
Intrinsic Therapeutics	2	$168
Cerapedics Inc.	1	$139
Bioventus LLC	1	$116
Abbott	2	$50
Zimmer Biomet	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.

CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$4,002
OZARK CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$1,542
EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,542
CREO$1,076
ES2 SPINAL SYSTEM$467
BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$317
YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$249
RISE-L$181
RAVINE LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$153
I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$139
T2 ALPHA$127
OsteoAMP$116
M6-C Artificial Cervical Disc$113
BIO4$105
Cervical-STIM$104

How this compares

$7,076 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$171,846

Medicare patients

284

Services billed

945

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
Baclofen	378	$2,685
Gabapentin	206	$1,765
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	133	$1,675
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	124	$797
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	57	$602
Meloxicam	121	$547
Methylprednisolone	92	$520
Tramadol Hcl	108	$320
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	14	$231
Ibuprofen	17	$184
Tizanidine Hcl	12	$138
Oxycodone Hcl	15	$119
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	11	$50

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Palos Hills

Frank PhillipsChicago$3.9M
Kern SinghChicago$1.3M
Christopher DewaldChicago$1.2M
P Ronjon PaulNaperville$908K
Philip MeinhardtQuincy$507K
Anis MekhailPalos Heights$498K
Matthew ColmanChicago$334K
Mir AliMorris$329K
Krzysztof SiemionowHomer Glen$290K
Arash SayariChicago$174K

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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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