Kushagra Verma, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Los Alamitos, CANPI 1568788917
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $168,001 of the $209,054 with a category attached, or 80.4%. 52 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 35.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $57,654 and has fallen 79.3% since, to $11,914 in 2025.
Across 401 payments — averaging $521.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$74K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$58K
- Globus Medical$40K
- Medtronic$10K
- Aegis Spine, Inc.$4K
- Biogennix, LLC$4K
- plus $19K from 46 others
Across 29 payments — averaging $4972.31 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$104K
- Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc.$40K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$168,00180%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,0203%
- Travel & lodging$20,16810%
- Food & beverage$13,5066%
- Education$2850%
- Gifts$750%
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.
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.
- EXPEDIUM$56,397
- VIPER$55,118
- XLIF$25,562
- NIAGARA LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$23,075
- MESA SPINAL SYSTEM$18,200
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$15,002
- T2 STRATOSPHERE$7,577
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$5,850
- Excelsius - GPS$4,718
- XIA 3$4,550
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$3,450
- NeoWave/Ti3D$2,698
- SONOPET IQ$2,600
- aprevo$2,244
- Perla TL$1,875
- Other - Miscellaneous$1,331
- Pulse$1,192
- PRODISC L$1,151
- CD HORIZON$984
- N/A$780
How this compares
$209,054 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.
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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 | 168 | $1,469 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 71 | $1,125 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 72 | $667 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 24 | $379 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 40 | $202 |
| Cephalexin | 34 | $116 |
| Methylprednisolone | 11 | $97 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 15 | $80 |
| Naproxen | 14 | $59 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Los Alamitos
- Hyun BaeSanta Monica$56.8M
- Choll KimSan Diego$4M
- Stacey BedermanOrange$3.7M
- Gregory Mundisla Jolla$3.3M
- Paul SlosarDaly City$3.1M
- Babak Barcohanavan Nuys$2.9M
- Neelakantan AnandLos Angeles$2.9M
- Sanjay KhuranaMarina del Rey$2.3M
- Neville AlleyneOceanside$2.2M
- Rick DelamarterSanta Monica$2.2M
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.