Jeffrey Varghese, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1568958676
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (48.7%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 46.0% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in MN, where the typical reported total is $3,706.
Across 42 payments — averaging $114.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$2K
- Medtronic$860
- Arthrex$581
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$442
- Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$156
- Foundation Medical, LLC$144
- plus $423 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,35149%
- Food & beverage$1,91940%
- Education$55612%
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 | 7 | $2,219 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $860 |
| Arthrex | 12 | $581 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $442 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $156 |
| Foundation Medical, LLC | 1 | $144 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 5 | $131 |
| Ossdsign USA Incorporated | 1 | $123 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $24 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $18 |
| Pinnacle, Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- AERO-LL$2,074
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$526
- MagnetOs$156
- UNID_PASS$139
- OssDsign Catalyst$123
How this compares
$4,826 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 39 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Minnesota.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 48 | $295 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 21 | $245 |
| Methocarbamol | 29 | $169 |
| Methylprednisolone | 22 | $164 |
| Gabapentin | 13 | $96 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Minneapolis
- Eiman ShafaMinneapolis$570K
- Nathan HendricksonMinneapolis$34K
- Mark MichaelMinneapolis$4K
- Carlos CastroMinneapolis$4K
- John LonsteinMinneapolis$268
- Glenn ButtermannRoseville$259K
- Nicholas WillsEagan$241K
- Tenner GuillaumeSaint Paul$163K
- Benjamin MuellerFridley$89K
- Michael SmithEdina$43K
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.