Harvinder Sandhu
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · New York, NYNPI 1376653378
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by other: $205,913 of the $265,622 with a category attached, or 77.5%. Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. accounts for 77.5% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $212,970 and has fallen 92.1% since, to $16,916 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in NY 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.
Across 100 payments — averaging $2656.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$206K
- Globus Medical$22K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$21K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$12K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$3K
- Zimmer Biomet$542
- plus $1K from 6 others
Across 8 payments — averaging $1728.38 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Spine Wave, Inc.$14K
- Prosidyan, Inc$0
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$9,8614%
- Consulting fees$38,73815%
- Travel & lodging$6,2132%
- Food & beverage$4,8982%
- Other$205,91378%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 3 | $205,913 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 31 | $21,849 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 24 | $21,324 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 18 | $11,823 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 6 | $3,013 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $542 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 3 | $321 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 4 | $256 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $210 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 2 | $184 |
| Stryker | 2 | $124 |
| Locate Bio Inc | 1 | $65 |
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.
- Fibulink$14,686
- Precision TLIF$12,000
- Physio-Stim$9,174
- TLIF$4,200
- OsteoStrand Plus$4,100
- Strand$3,000
- Other - Miscellaneous$2,946
- Spinal-Stim$2,375
- XLIF$1,766
- Strand Plus$1,500
- Xvision$1,395
- RISE-L$1,251
- ACP$591
- PRESERVE - TLIF$500
- Pulse$491
- Modulus$333
- CREO$331
- CREO 5.5$331
- RELINE$286
- Vitality$244
How this compares
$265,622 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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
- Han KimNew York$3.9M
- 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
- 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.