Mir Ali, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Morris, ILNPI 1255317194
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $279,728 of the $328,791 with a category attached, or 85.1%. Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 92.1% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $87,452, 2.3 times the $37,832 reported in 2019.
Across 153 payments — averaging $2148.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$303K
- Globus Medical$12K
- Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.$10K
- Spineart USA Inc$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$348
- Stryker$333
- plus $624 from 9 others
Across 9 payments — averaging $3717.56 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$33K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$279,72885%
- Consulting fees$15,7005%
- Speaking & faculty fees$14,1004%
- Travel & lodging$14,3994%
- Food & beverage$4,8571%
- Education$60%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 74 | $302,670 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 49 | $11,517 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $10,100 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 5 | $3,199 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $348 |
| Stryker | 4 | $333 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $235 |
| Atlas Spine, Inc. | 1 | $126 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $80 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $71 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $33 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $12 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Invictus MIS$244,757
- Other - Miscellaneous$83,122
- Battalion TLIF - PC$27,803
- TLIF$18,422
- LIF$6,021
- IdentiTi$3,000
- PLIF$2,046
- Pulse$1,834
- XLIF$1,037
- LessRay$903
- MULTIPLE$699
- AttraX$204
- MaXcess$146
- NVM5$133
- PROPEL$132
- VESUVIUS$131
- HiJAK Cervical$126
- ALTERA$110
- SCARLET AC-T$107
- SafeOp$106
How this compares
$328,791 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Illinois.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 151 | $1,064 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 187 | $526 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 31 | $377 |
| Gabapentin | 36 | $321 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 17 | $143 |
| Methylprednisolone | 12 | $53 |
| Diazepam | 12 | $42 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Morris
- Frank PhillipsChicago$3.9M
- Kern SinghChicago$1.3M
- Christopher DewaldChicago$1.2M
- P Ronjon PaulNaperville$908K
- Philip MeinhardtQuincy$507K
- Anis MekhailPalos Heights$498K
- Matthew ColmanChicago$334K
- Krzysztof SiemionowHomer Glen$290K
- Arash SayariChicago$174K
- Vivek MohanSchaumburg$168K
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.