Joshua Pahys
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Philadelphia, PANPI 1922212851
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $177,088 of the $212,673 with a category attached, or 83.3%. Globus Medical accounts for 64.5% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $54,415 and has fallen 69.1% since, to $16,829 in 2025.
Across 241 payments — averaging $882.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$137K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$28K
- Zimmer Biomet$22K
- Zimvie Inc.$10K
- Highridge Medical LLC$7K
- Johnson & Johnson$5K
- plus $3K from 5 others
Across 10 payments — averaging $12,918 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.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$129K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$6,3683%
- Consulting fees$177,08883%
- Travel & lodging$23,74511%
- Food & beverage$5,4733%
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) | 158 | $137,249 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 17 | $28,302 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 34 | $21,587 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 12 | $10,122 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 6 | $7,349 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $5,035 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 1 | $1,755 |
| Stryker | 6 | $650 |
| Biedermann Motech, Inc. | 2 | $326 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $215 |
| VB Spine LLC | 1 | $83 |
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.
- RELINE$47,097
- EXPEDIUM$33,818
- The Tether$29,206
- MAGEC$15,889
- REFLECT/REFLECT HDE$7,500
- Polaris 4.75 Spinal System$7,050
- Vitality$7,050
- Virage$7,050
- Vitality Power$7,050
- Vitality PSO$7,050
- XLIF$6,162
- TLIF$4,750
- Pulse$2,195
- RISE$1,533
- CREO MIS Stabilization System$1,523
- PRECICE$1,000
- Mobi-C$600
- MAGEC Spinal Bracing and Distraction System$500
- Dynesys$413
- MOSS VRS Spinal System$326
How this compares
$212,673 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 43 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Pennsylvania.
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Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Philadelphia
- David CasperPhiladelphia$195K
- John FisherPhiladelphia$43K
- Patrick CahillPhiladelphia$4K
- Sherif SherifPhiladelphia$3K
- Richard BalderstonPhiladelphia$0
- Alan HilibrandBensalem$1.4M
- Joel TorrettiState College$1.1M
- Gregory BaileyState College$1.1M
- David AndersonBensalem$786K
- Jeffrey McConnellAllentown$509K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.