Keven Burns, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Scottsdale, AZNPI 1568807022
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $61,000 of the $96,674 with a category attached, or 63.1%. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 42.8% of the total.
Across 441 payments — averaging $219.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$41K
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$19K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$16K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$8K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$4K
- Medtronic$2K
- plus $5K from 21 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $4450.00 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.
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$22K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$61,00063%
- Travel & lodging$17,32018%
- Food & beverage$18,34519%
- Education$90%
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) | 236 | $41,342 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 28 | $19,449 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 39 | $16,206 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 24 | $8,498 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 20 | $3,948 |
| Medtronic | 33 | $2,493 |
| Abbott | 20 | $2,011 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 16 | $930 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 4 | $495 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $202 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $163 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $141 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $107 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Impactortho, Inc. | 2 | $87 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $73 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| 4web, Inc. | 1 | $63 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $58 |
| Carbofix Spine Inc | 1 | $50 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $49 |
| Stryker | 1 | $39 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $32 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Terumo BCT, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $5 |
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.
- XLIF$14,967
- Regatta Lateral System$9,488
- Excelsius - GPS$6,243
- Simplify Cervical Artificial Disc$4,962
- Admiral$4,875
- Other - Miscellaneous$1,610
- Pulse$1,256
- PROCLAIM$930
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$867
- ALIF$768
- Medical Devices$507
- TLX$421
- Proclaim IPG$391
- ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$362
- iFuse Implant$313
- PENTA$293
- Meridian$287
- TLIF$273
- 7D Surgical System$265
- WaveForm L$254
How this compares
$96,674 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Arizona.
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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 | 125 | $1,315 |
| Celecoxib | 40 | $580 |
| Pregabalin | 45 | $433 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 61 | $396 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 27 | $276 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 31 | $257 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 19 | $245 |
| Methylprednisolone | 38 | $239 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 18 | $211 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 21 | $199 |
| Methocarbamol | 21 | $166 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 14 | $39 |
| Prednisone | 18 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Scottsdale
- Todd DoerrScottsdale$614K
- David PriorScottsdale$23K
- Michael Conti MicaScottsdale$19K
- Edward DohringScottsdale$16K
- Jonathan BoyceScottsdale$11K
- Toure VashonScottsdale$7K
- John CaleScottsdale$3K
- Justin FieldPhoenix$2.3M
- John HallFlagstaff$783K
- Nima SalariPhoenix$741K
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.