Han Kim
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · New York, NYNPI 1376710665
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $3,091,331 of the $3,919,794 with a category attached, or 78.9%. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 30.5% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,118,591, 3.1 times the $356,888 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in NY 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 $5648.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$1.2M
- Highridge Medical LLC$694K
- Zimmer Biomet$685K
- Zimvie Inc.$527K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$223K
- VB Spine LLC$197K
- plus $400K from 20 others
Across 23 payments — averaging $3996.50 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.
- Si-bone, Inc.$92K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$3,091,33179%
- Consulting fees$699,17618%
- Speaking & faculty fees$33,4121%
- Travel & lodging$66,2422%
- Food & beverage$29,0141%
- Gifts$5480%
- Entertainment$720%
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 | 37 | $1,193,977 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 52 | $693,767 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 174 | $685,007 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 38 | $527,029 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 75 | $222,982 |
| VB Spine LLC | 3 | $196,934 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 71 | $135,585 |
| Acuity Surgical Devices, LLC | 9 | $99,995 |
| Mirus, LLC | 16 | $46,693 |
| Medtronic | 45 | $36,382 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 34 | $24,778 |
| Theradaptive, Inc. | 4 | $23,355 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 105 | $20,773 |
| Smaio SA | 6 | $4,693 |
| Smaio USA Corporation | 4 | $3,522 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $1,200 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $962 |
| 4web, Inc. | 4 | $493 |
| EBI, LLC | 2 | $395 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $279 |
| Medicrea USA, Corp. | 5 | $250 |
| Abyrx, Inc | 1 | $218 |
| Axis Spine Technologies Inc. | 1 | $192 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $122 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $118 |
| Biedermann Motech, Inc. | 2 | $94 |
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.
- NILE ALTERNATIVE FIXATION SYSTEM$883,462
- Vitality$867,080
- Vital$853,758
- NILE$286,453
- Other - Miscellaneous$203,970
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$196,934
- Vitality Power$81,046
- Mariner Deformity$62,609
- Vital Deformity$58,850
- Vital Deformity, Degen, Hooks$55,325
- IdentiTi$47,300
- EUROPA Pedicle Screw System$46,673
- Arsenal Deformity$33,000
- Mariner$32,358
- Spine-None$31,625
- Vital MIS$29,909
- BIOLOGICS$29,700
- CYGNUS Anterior Cervical Plate$29,324
- 3DR Lumbar Interbody$29,324
- IO Expandable Lumbar Interbody$29,324
How this compares
$3,919,794 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 161 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New York.
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Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in New York
- Frank SchwabNew York$5.1M
- Todd AlbertNew York$2.7M
- Jeffrey SpivakNew York$1.3M
- Aaron BucklandNew York$1M
- Sheeraz QureshiNew York$828K
- Jeffrey GoldsteinNew York$765K
- Fabien BitanNew York$624K
- Oheneba Boachie-AdjeiNew York$313K
- Harvinder SandhuNew York$266K
- Federico GirardiNew York$144K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.