Kenneth Hood, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Amherst, NYNPI 1861783060
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (33.5%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 36 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 43.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $33,449 and has fallen 67.8% since, to $10,767 in 2025.
Across 248 payments — averaging $361.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$39K
- Republic Spine$30K
- Life Spine, Inc.$5K
- Innovasis Inc$4K
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$2K
- Abbott$2K
- plus $8K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$30,00033%
- Consulting fees$22,18925%
- Speaking & faculty fees$13,30015%
- Travel & lodging$6,6777%
- Food & beverage$14,42116%
- Education$3,0843%
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) | 90 | $39,324 |
| Republic Spine | 14 | $30,203 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 9 | $4,771 |
| Innovasis Inc | 7 | $3,756 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 28 | $2,206 |
| Abbott | 22 | $1,887 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 5 | $1,429 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 5 | $767 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 7 | $670 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus | 7 | $628 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 4 | $624 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $496 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 6 | $402 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 2 | $332 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $328 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 4 | $322 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $164 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 2 | $158 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $149 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $131 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $128 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 3 | $120 |
| Nexxt Spine LLC | 1 | $107 |
| Stryker | 1 | $107 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $83 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $69 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $64 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $59 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $41 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $31 |
| Titan Surgical Group, LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $9 |
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.
- ELSA ATP$9,591
- ELSA$8,990
- ELSA, ELSA AL/ATP$7,913
- ProLift Lateral$3,422
- ATP$1,176
- Medical Device$996
- PROCLAIM$766
- Juliet LL$750
- ALTERA$696
- Excelsius - GPS$594
- Perla TL$514
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$461
- Proclaim IPG$424
- Excelsius3D Imaging System$332
- CREO$327
- i-FACTOR Putty$307
- MagnetOs$289
- XLIF$282
- MARS$260
- Omnia$257
How this compares
$89,671 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 161 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New York.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 16 | $179 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Amherst
- Hansen YuanSyracuse$31.7M
- Frank SchwabNew York$5.1M
- Han KimNew York$3.9M
- Todd AlbertNew York$2.7M
- Jeffrey SpivakNew York$1.3M
- Aaron BucklandNew York$1M
- Seth NeubardtWhite Plains$902K
- Sheeraz QureshiNew York$828K
- Jeffrey GoldsteinNew York$765K
- Fabien BitanNew York$624K
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.