Kaveh Khajavi, MD
Neurological Surgery · Atlanta, GANPI 1487610275
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (38.8%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 50.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $111,333 and has fallen 74.8% since, to $28,031 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in GA 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 331 payments — averaging $680.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$114K
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$88K
- Nanohive Medical LLC$8K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$5K
- Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.$4K
- Curiteva, Inc.$3K
- plus $4K from 15 others
Across 11 payments — averaging $1751.36 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.
- Globus Medical$19K
Across 6 payments — averaging $16,632 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$100K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$87,50039%
- Consulting fees$84,25837%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,2001%
- Travel & lodging$40,73618%
- Food & beverage$9,5454%
- Entertainment$70%
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) | 269 | $114,022 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 3 | $87,604 |
| Nanohive Medical LLC | 7 | $7,625 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 16 | $4,965 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $4,000 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 2 | $2,764 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 11 | $2,664 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $577 |
| MML US, Inc. | 3 | $368 |
| Nanovis LLC | 1 | $128 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Osteomed LLC | 1 | $100 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $71 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $67 |
| Stryker | 1 | $48 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Microtransponder, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Abbott | 1 | $18 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Minuteman$87,500
- XLIF$58,719
- ALIF$36,129
- Other - Miscellaneous$4,137
- OsteoCentric 4.0 x 130mm LOCKING BONE SCREW FASTENER ST$4,000
- Hive Portfolio$3,250
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$2,000
- Smart Sensor$2,000
- Hive - DirectSync Collaboration$1,625
- Modulus$1,424
- Hive Standalone Cervical System$750
- Excelsius - GPS$677
- CREO MIS Stabilization System$361
- MULTIPLE$343
- RESTORE$302
- COHERE$300
- NVM5$221
- iFuse Implant$208
- ReActiv8$202
- Anterior Disc Prep$156
How this compares
$225,246 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 201 neurological surgery providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 56 | $679 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 19 | $366 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 15 | $347 |
| Methocarbamol | 28 | $290 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Atlanta
- Regis HaidAtlanta$25.5M
- Thomas MorrisonAtlanta$2.8M
- Christopher TomarasAtlanta$1.5M
- Daniel RefaiAtlanta$1.2M
- Gerald RodtsAtlanta$1.2M
- James RobinsonAtlanta$993K
- Michele JohnsonAtlanta$540K
- David McCrackenAtlanta$425K
- Robert GrossAtlanta$315K
- Joshua WewelAtlanta$114K
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.