Has Nathaniel Whitney, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $14,283 in general payments to Nathaniel Whitney, MD across 48 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 Nathaniel Whitney, 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 Nathaniel Whitney, 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.

Nathaniel Whitney, MD

Neurological Surgery · Spokane, WANPI 1730356346

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (48.6%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Biotronik NRO, Inc. at 55.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $8,152, 3.7 times the $2,191 reported in 2019.

$14,283in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 48 payments — averaging $297.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Biotronik NRO, Inc.$8K
Globus Medical$6K
Medtronic$202
Abbott$119
Biotronik Inc.$57
Johnson & Johnson$34

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$6,93849%
Travel & lodging$5,71640%
Food & beverage$1,62911%

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
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	10	$7,980
Globus Medical	31	$5,891
Medtronic(2 entities)	2	$202
Abbott	2	$119
Biotronik Inc.	2	$57
Johnson & Johnson	1	$34

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.

Prospera$7,622
Excelsius - GPS$2,134
RISE$1,662
Spine$484
EXCELSIUS$399
Excelsius Robotics System$146
ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$134
PRESTIGE$120
Excelsius3D Imaging System$108

How this compares

$14,283 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 175 neurological surgery providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$161,928

Medicare patients

169

Services billed

428

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.

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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.

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