Krishn Sharma, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · White Plains, NYNPI 1235190240
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (47.5%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Precision Spine, Inc. accounts for 89.6% of it on its own, with 31 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $136,897 and has fallen 99.4% since, to $851 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in NY 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 194 payments — averaging $1526.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Precision Spine, Inc.$265K
- Wound Management Technologies, Inc$10K
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$7K
- Stryker$5K
- Si-bone, Inc.$3K
- Imbed Biosciences Inc.$1K
- plus $5K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$140,76348%
- Consulting fees$125,50242%
- Speaking & faculty fees$12,0004%
- Travel & lodging$4,6612%
- Food & beverage$13,2354%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 12 | $265,221 |
| Wound Management Technologies, Inc | 9 | $9,708 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 18 | $7,127 |
| Stryker | 46 | $5,415 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 32 | $2,693 |
| Imbed Biosciences Inc. | 11 | $1,494 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 12 | $923 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 5 | $460 |
| DJO, LLC | 7 | $455 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 4 | $304 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $266 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $240 |
| VB Spine LLC | 1 | $236 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 2 | $223 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $223 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $177 |
| Axogen | 1 | $166 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 2 | $150 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $112 |
| GS Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $108 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $97 |
| Elevation Spine, Inc. | 1 | $80 |
| Royal Biologics, Inc. | 1 | $62 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $39 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $34 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education | 1 | $11 |
| 7d Surgical 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.
- Vault C$251,776
- Reform$39,813
- Reform Modular$39,813
- CellerateRx$16,450
- Reform Pedicle Screw System$13,445
- VAULT C ACDF SYSTEM$13,445
- iFuse Implant$1,378
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,320
- XIA$372
- CMF$324
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$295
- Medical Devices$257
- TRITANIUM$256
- Magellan$240
- CHESAPEAKE STABILIZATION SYSTEM$236
- DIVERGENCE-L$181
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$166
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$162
- M6-C Artificial Cervical Disc$154
- ELEVATE$149
How this compares
$296,161 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate | 11 | $5,996 |
| Gabapentin | 89 | $1,131 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 72 | $1,087 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 46 | $821 |
| Morphine Sulfate | 18 | $535 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 73 | $350 |
| Clonazepam | 12 | $168 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 12 | $118 |
| Celecoxib | 14 | $79 |
| Meloxicam | 36 | $36 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in White Plains
- Seth NeubardtWhite Plains$902K
- Rudolph TaddonioWhite Plains$231K
- Jared BrandoffWhite Plains$69K
- 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
- Sheeraz QureshiNew York$828K
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.