Melanie Kinchen
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Atlanta, GANPI 1134142029
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $200,058 of the $254,239 with a category attached, or 78.7%. Fuse Medical, Inc. accounts for 64.0% of it on its own, with 35 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $83,643 and has fallen 95.9% since, to $3,412 in 2025.
Across 274 payments — averaging $927.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Fuse Medical, Inc.$163K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$28K
- Zavation Medical Products, LLC$18K
- Nexxt Spine LLC$12K
- Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.$7K
- Innovasis Inc$6K
- plus $20K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$200,05879%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,0002%
- Travel & lodging$34,37214%
- Food & beverage$15,4196%
- Entertainment$3900%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fuse Medical, Inc. | 14 | $162,784 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 15 | $28,084 |
| Zavation Medical Products, LLC | 14 | $18,120 |
| Nexxt Spine LLC | 38 | $11,793 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 8 | $7,273 |
| Innovasis Inc | 14 | $6,397 |
| Corelink, LLC | 21 | $4,970 |
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 6 | $3,320 |
| 4web, Inc. | 24 | $3,131 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 18 | $2,442 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 8 | $1,780 |
| Boston Scientific | 42 | $1,156 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 2 | $544 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 9 | $430 |
| Kalitec Direct LLC | 3 | $251 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $245 |
| Neo Spine USA, Inc. | 4 | $202 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 3 | $194 |
| CPM Medical Consultants, LLC | 3 | $168 |
| Elevation Spine, Inc. | 1 | $163 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Ossdsign USA Incorporated | 2 | $109 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 1 | $79 |
| Abbott | 1 | $78 |
| Stryker | 2 | $74 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $71 |
| GE HealthCare | 2 | $52 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $28 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $23 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $20 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
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.
- MYSPINE$27,598
- ZAVATION$11,182
- Magellan$7,217
- Connexx System$4,045
- Ezspand Interbody/ Z-direct screw$4,000
- SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$2,413
- Connexx MIS System$2,048
- SLIMPLICITY HP$2,000
- MD VUE LATERAL ACCESS$2,000
- Nexxt Matrixx Products$1,800
- Nexxt Spine Product Portfolio$1,605
- SIMMETRY IMPLANT, 12.5MM X 50MM$1,494
- COFLEX INTERLAMINAR TECHNOLOGY, 10MM$1,494
- FORTILINK CAGES WITH TIPLUS TECHNOLOGY$1,494
- ARAI SURGICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM$1,494
- ZV Pro/Zavatrix$1,000
- Z direct, ZV Pro/Zavatrix$399
- MUST$234
- FlareHawk$220
- Inertia EXT System$210
How this compares
$254,239 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 57 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Georgia.
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Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Atlanta
- John HellerAtlanta$4.2M
- Scott BodenAtlanta$1.5M
- John RheeAtlanta$1.1M
- Paul JeffordsAtlanta$651K
- Sangwook YoonAtlanta$227K
- Keith MichaelAtlanta$194K
- Brian GohAtlanta$23K
- Krishna GumidyalaAtlanta$19K
- Plas JamesAtlanta$10K
- Douglass JohnsonAtlanta$7K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.