Kunwar Khalsa, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Phoenix, AZNPI 1417377201
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (57.5%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Globus Medical accounts for 85.4% of it on its own, with 23 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $63,011, more than ten times the $184 reported in 2019.
Across 264 payments — averaging $690.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$156K
- Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.$12K
- Cerapedics Inc.$8K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- Biotronik NRO, Inc.$1K
- plus $3K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$104,76357%
- Speaking & faculty fees$47,51926%
- Travel & lodging$23,56013%
- Food & beverage$6,4514%
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 | 139 | $155,685 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 7 | $11,618 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 6 | $7,589 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 9 | $1,721 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 7 | $1,594 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 8 | $1,159 |
| Abbott | 7 | $833 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 4 | $408 |
| Nevro Corp. | 6 | $353 |
| Amgen | 36 | $279 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $142 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $131 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $126 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 17 | $122 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $112 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 1 | $93 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $73 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 2 | $71 |
| Lenoss Medical Inc | 1 | $60 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $41 |
| Stryker | 1 | $34 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $8 |
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.
- TLIF$40,975
- Quartex$20,379
- ELSA, ELSA AL/ATP$19,719
- Excelsius - GPS$18,286
- RISE$17,991
- Magellan$9,004
- MARS Anterior Retractor$6,300
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$6,048
- ELSA$5,250
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$4,326
- XLIF$4,069
- Anthem$3,686
- CREO$2,740
- RISE-L$2,588
- ILIF$2,396
- Spine$2,347
- RISE-L . RISE-L A/L$1,700
- MARS 3V/3VL$1,700
- i-FACTOR Putty$1,500
- VIPER$1,494
How this compares
$182,293 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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 | 90 | $842 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 85 | $547 |
| Methylprednisolone | 58 | $440 |
| Sulindac | 33 | $413 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 18 | $73 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Phoenix
- Justin FieldPhoenix$2.3M
- Nima SalariPhoenix$741K
- Harvinder BediPhoenix$740K
- Mark WangPhoenix$573K
- Joshua AbramsPhoenix$311K
- Louis RappoportPhoenix$236K
- David JacksonPhoenix$189K
- Norman ChutkanPhoenix$114K
- Shaleen ViraPhoenix$109K
- Vikram MayuranPhoenix$76K
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.