Jens Chapman, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Seattle, WANPI 1134268915
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (40.1%), royalties or licence payments and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Globus Medical accounts for 92.8% of it on its own, with 23 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $110,344, 6.7 times the $16,495 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in WA 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 345 payments — averaging $1141.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$365K
- Spineart USA Inc$11K
- Xtant Medical Inc$10K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Spineart SA$1K
- Medtronic$981
- plus $3K from 18 others
Across 19 payments — averaging $3060.64 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.
- Cerapedics Inc.$27K
- Medtronic$17K
- Globus Medical$14K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$129,18833%
- Consulting fees$157,99640%
- Speaking & faculty fees$51,90013%
- Travel & lodging$45,46312%
- Food & beverage$9,1462%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 212 | $365,436 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 3 | $11,497 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 10 | $9,519 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 64 | $2,203 |
| Spineart SA | 2 | $1,045 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 10 | $981 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 5 | $587 |
| Stryker | 9 | $494 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 5 | $426 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 2 | $237 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $228 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $204 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $156 |
| Carbofix Spine Inc | 3 | $147 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 3 | $116 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 2 | $97 |
| Ossdsign USA Incorporated | 1 | $38 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $27 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $27 |
| CTL Medical Corporation | 2 | $25 |
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.
- Excelsius - GPS$95,687
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$38,484
- Excelsius3D Imaging System$36,408
- IntraLIF$30,837
- Intradiscal Osteotomy$25,535
- Imaging System$24,598
- Oscillating High Speed Drill$13,000
- CREO$12,683
- TLIF$11,850
- Precision TLIF$11,500
- CREO MIS Stabilization System$6,463
- ELSA ATP$5,686
- XLIF$5,622
- Disc Arthroplasty$4,250
- Excelsius Robotics System$3,125
- Captivate VL$2,510
- RISE-L . RISE-L A/L$2,358
- NextGen Def Pedicle Screw$2,000
- PRESERVE - TLIF$1,925
- Spine - Prototype$1,843
How this compares
$393,693 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 17 | $91 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Seattle
- Rajiv SethiSeattle$2.9M
- Richard BransfordSeattle$413K
- Venu NemaniSeattle$199K
- Philip LouieSeattle$132K
- Nicholas SpinaSeattle$98K
- Farhan KarimSeattle$59K
- Haitao ZhouSeattle$48K
- 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.