Has Kushagra Verma, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $288,997 in general payments to Kushagra Verma, MD across 417 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Kushagra Verma, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Kushagra Verma, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Kushagra Verma, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Los Alamitos, CANPI 1568788917

Payments from drug & device makers

$288,997in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 417 payments — averaging $693.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$80K
Stryker$74K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$58K
Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc.$40K
Medtronic$10K
Aegis Spine, Inc.$4K
plus $23K from 46 others

$64,254in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 13 payments — averaging $4942.62 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$64K

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.

Company	Payments	Total
Globus Medical(2 entities)	163	$80,095
Stryker	40	$74,200
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	35	$58,419
Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc.	2	$40,060
Medtronic(2 entities)	21	$9,617
Aegis Spine, Inc.	2	$4,022
Biogennix, LLC	1	$3,500
Xenix Medical LLC	1	$2,698
Spineart USA Inc	7	$2,561
Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC	4	$2,467
Johnson & Johnson(3 entities)	41	$2,459
Carlsmed, Inc.	9	$2,430
Alphatec Spine, Inc	6	$1,436
Centinel Spine, LLC	5	$1,258
CMF Medicon Surgical Inc.	1	$1,000
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	6	$393
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	3	$296
Precision Spine, Inc.	3	$248
Biedermann Motech, Inc.	3	$180
Si-bone, Inc.	6	$178
Neo Spine USA, Inc.	4	$137
Amgen(2 entities)	7	$114
Radius Health, Inc.	4	$108
Mimedx Group, Inc.	4	$90
Ossdsign USA Incorporated	1	$83
Intrinsic Therapeutics	1	$77
Zimmer Biomet	3	$73
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	2	$52
Expanding Innovations, Inc.	1	$50
DJO, LLC	2	$49
Avanos Medical	1	$48
Trevena, Inc.	3	$47
Spineology Inc.	2	$46
Camber Spine Technologies LLC	1	$43
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$39
Bioventus LLC	1	$37
Smith+Nephew	2	$37
Baxter Healthcare	2	$33
Solventum Corporation	1	$33
Nevro Corp.	2	$31
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$29
Biocomposites Inc	1	$27
Spinal Surgical Strategies, Inc.	1	$26
Vertex	1	$26
Urgo Medical North America, LLC	1	$25
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	1	$23
Venclose Inc.	1	$20
Abbott	1	$19
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	1	$18
Amniox Medical, Inc.	1	$16
7d Surgical Inc.	2	$14
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$12

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

$288,997 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.

See all orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California →

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$215,429

Medicare patients

175

Services billed

736

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$62.2M
Choll KimSan Diego$4M
Stacey BedermanOrange$3.7M
Gregory Mundisla Jolla$3.5M
Neelakantan AnandLos Angeles$3.2M
Paul SlosarDaly City$3.1M
Babak Barcohanavan Nuys$2.9M
Rick DelamarterSanta Monica$2.3M
Sanjay KhuranaMarina del Rey$2.3M
Neville AlleyneOceanside$2.2M

See the full list for California →

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.

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →