Has Keith Michael, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $194,479 in general payments to Keith Michael, MD across 349 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Keith Michael, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Keith Michael, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Keith Michael, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Atlanta, GANPI 1033385679

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (42.0%), consulting fees and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alphatec Spine, Inc at 54.3% of the total.

$194,479in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 349 payments — averaging $557.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alphatec Spine, Inc$106K
Medtronic$44K
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$24K
Stryker$11K
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$10K
Globus Medical$278
plus $193 from 2 others

$178,957in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 54 payments — averaging $3314.03 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.

Medtronic$127K
Pfizer$24K
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$20K
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$8K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$73,89138%
Speaking & faculty fees$27,95314%
Travel & lodging$81,59542%
Food & beverage$11,0406%

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
Alphatec Spine, Inc	144	$105,580
Medtronic(2 entities)	75	$43,638
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	85	$24,354
Stryker	2	$10,859
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	35	$9,578
Globus Medical	5	$278
Cerapedics Inc.	2	$133
Johnson & Johnson	1	$60

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.

Other - Miscellaneous$94,450
Solus ALIF$23,403
PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$22,350
MISCELLANEOUS$11,092
AVIATOR$10,800
TRITANIUM$10,800
SERRATO$10,800
CLYDESDALE$8,551
CD HORIZON$6,254
LIF$3,307
NorthStar$2,690
7D Surgical System$1,428
Shoreline ACS$1,200
Reef TA$1,200
Mariner MIS$903
Cambria NanoMetalene$880
Battalion PLIF - PS$618
ASCENT;ASCENT LE;CENTURION$579
SeaSpine Expandable Interbody$500
INVICTUS OPEN$410

How this compares

$194,479 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 57 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$400,956

Medicare patients

290

Services billed

1,411

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
Pregabalin	96	$1,786
Oxycodone Hcl	206	$1,629
Gabapentin	145	$1,537
Tizanidine Hcl	156	$898
Ondansetron Hcl	154	$603
Tramadol Hcl	84	$483
Methylprednisolone	62	$342
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	27	$329
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	36	$304
Methocarbamol	48	$304
Diclofenac Sodium	24	$232
Baclofen	22	$180
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	25	$89
Meloxicam	22	$79
Diazepam	13	$8

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Atlanta

John HellerAtlanta$4.2M
Scott BodenAtlanta$1.5M
John RheeAtlanta$1.1M
Paul JeffordsAtlanta$651K
Melanie KinchenAtlanta$254K
Sangwook YoonAtlanta$227K
Brian GohAtlanta$23K
Krishna GumidyalaAtlanta$19K
Plas JamesAtlanta$10K
Douglass JohnsonAtlanta$7K

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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.

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