Kern Singh
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Chicago, ILNPI 1497734289
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,160,642 of the $1,334,307 with a category attached, or 87.0%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimvie Inc. at 41.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $422,102 and has fallen 67.3% since, to $138,069 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 267 payments — averaging $4997.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimvie Inc.$554K
- Zimmer Biomet$395K
- Highridge Medical LLC$252K
- Stryker$116K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$7K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$4K
- plus $7K from 10 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $5391.98 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$5K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,160,64287%
- Consulting fees$155,43512%
- Travel & lodging$14,7411%
- Food & beverage$3,4900%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimvie Inc. | 38 | $554,015 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 120 | $394,745 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 39 | $251,890 |
| Stryker | 46 | $115,684 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 5 | $7,074 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $4,296 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $3,600 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $1,840 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 3 | $339 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 4 | $253 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $205 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $179 |
| VB Spine LLC | 3 | $138 |
| Hospira, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $18 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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.
- Vitality$902,913
- Vital$229,417
- ESCALATE$83,409
- TrellOss$31,650
- Vital MIS$31,421
- Mobi-C$25,224
- SERRATO$21,339
- BACS$20,649
- EVEREST MI$20,649
- TRITANIUM$20,649
- MESA$20,649
- Timberline$18,403
- Walter$18,150
- MOBI-C PLUG & FIT US$18,064
- Vital Deformity$12,000
- ProLift Expandable TLIF$11,400
- The Tether$11,400
- FORTILINK$4,945
- CONDUIT$4,296
- Sentio$4,296
How this compares
$1,334,307 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Illinois.
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Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Chicago
- Frank PhillipsChicago$3.9M
- Christopher DewaldChicago$1.2M
- Matthew ColmanChicago$334K
- Arash SayariChicago$174K
- Michael LeeChicago$107K
- Gregory LopezChicago$88K
- Howard AnChicago$82K
- Purnendu GuptaChicago$33K
- Karan PatelChicago$13K
- Neil MohileChicago$8K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.