Morgan Lorio
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Nashville, TNNPI 1730156720
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $36,036 of the $55,825 with a category attached, or 64.6%. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Choice Spine, LLC at 25.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $26,267 and has fallen 60.9% since, to $10,277 in 2025.
Across 60 payments — averaging $930.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Choice Spine, LLC$14K
- Alevio, LLC$13K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$8K
- Xtant Medical Inc$8K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$7K
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$2K
- plus $3K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$14,42026%
- Consulting fees$36,03665%
- Travel & lodging$2,0154%
- Food & beverage$3,3556%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Choice Spine, LLC | 1 | $14,420 |
| Alevio, LLC | 7 | $13,104 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $8,400 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 2 | $7,901 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 6 | $6,849 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $1,950 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 2 | $584 |
| MML US, Inc. | 2 | $449 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 7 | $446 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 3 | $287 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 2 | $277 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $262 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 3 | $162 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Ossio Inc | 1 | $101 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $97 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $89 |
| Stryker | 1 | $76 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $57 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Axogen | 1 | $32 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $26 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Amgen | 1 | $14 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 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.
- Thunderbolt$14,420
- SICURE SACROILIAC JOINT FUSION SYSTEM$9,000
- coflex$7,700
- SiCure$4,000
- LIBERTY SI$1,950
- Simmetry$700
- ReActiv8$449
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$426
- Intracept$239
- iFuse Implant$162
- FlareHawk 7 ENDO$131
How this compares
$55,825 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 51 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Tennessee.
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- Daniel KiridlyNashville$14K
- Christopher KauffmanNashville$12K
- Amir AbtahiNashville$8K
- Melvin LawNashville$6K
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Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.