Haitao Zhou, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Seattle, WANPI 1225260649
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (39.4%), speaking fees and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Synthes GmbH at 50.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $19,606 and has fallen 59.5% since, to $7,935 in 2025.
Across 133 payments — averaging $360.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Synthes GmbH$24K
- Stryker$13K
- Globus Medical$5K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Brainlab, Inc.$415
- plus $945 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,75020%
- Speaking & faculty fees$14,25030%
- Travel & lodging$18,91639%
- Food & beverage$5,05211%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Synthes GmbH | 37 | $24,420 |
| Stryker | 16 | $12,506 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 25 | $4,908 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 8 | $2,529 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 39 | $2,245 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 2 | $415 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $405 |
| VB Spine LLC | 2 | $205 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $179 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $156 |
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.
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$10,539
- Velys$2,456
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$2,002
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$1,410
- XLIF$1,361
- CREO MIS Stabilization System$1,100
- Excelsius - GPS$583
- Surgical planning and navigation radiation treatment planning and positioning$415
- SYMPHONY$386
- TRIALTIS$364
- Medical Devices$312
- VIPER$273
- Teligen$226
- PRODISC L$179
- Sable$165
- ACIS$148
- X-PAC$135
- CONDUIT$103
- Expedium VERSE$103
How this compares
$47,968 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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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.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Seattle
- Rajiv SethiSeattle$2.9M
- Richard BransfordSeattle$413K
- Jens ChapmanSeattle$394K
- Venu NemaniSeattle$199K
- Philip LouieSeattle$132K
- Nicholas SpinaSeattle$98K
- Farhan KarimSeattle$59K
- 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).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.