Navinder Sethi, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Bethesda, MDNPI 1306840244
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $104,363 of the $114,394 with a category attached, or 91.2%. Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 86.9% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $35,208 and has fallen 91.6% since, to $2,962 in 2025.
Across 128 payments — averaging $893.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$99K
- Ortho Development Corporation$5K
- Boston Scientific$5K
- Spine Wave, Inc.$3K
- Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC$768
- Arthrex$563
- plus $809 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$104,36391%
- Consulting fees$4,5254%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,9252%
- Travel & lodging$1,8482%
- Food & beverage$1,7332%
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 | 19 | $99,367 |
| Ortho Development Corporation | 65 | $5,230 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $5,080 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 9 | $2,578 |
| Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC | 2 | $768 |
| Arthrex | 4 | $563 |
| Medtronic | 8 | $299 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $116 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 3 | $100 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $92 |
| Stryker | 2 | $48 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $39 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 1 | $37 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $33 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $28 |
| Invivyd Inc | 1 | $18 |
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.
- BATTALION LLIF$50,305
- BATALLION LATERAL$33,495
- Battalion PLIF - PS$5,652
- Battalion TLIF - PC$5,259
- Other - Miscellaneous$4,422
- SUPERION$3,850
- Evolution$2,659
- SPINAL IMPLANT$2,377
- Superion Indirect Decompression System$1,100
- IBIS XL$738
- Battalion$125
- Irrisept$116
- Arsenal Degenerative$108
How this compares
$114,394 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 49 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Maryland.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 190 | $1,263 |
| Methylprednisolone | 158 | $1,072 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 68 | $462 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 54 | $357 |
| Meloxicam | 79 | $302 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 34 | $229 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 67 | $177 |
| Gabapentin | 18 | $128 |
| Diazepam | 11 | $16 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Bethesda
- Joseph ObrienBethesda$2.4M
- Eric FeuchtbaumBethesda$43K
- Alfred PisanoBethesda$38K
- Ira FischBethesda$1K
- John CarboneBaltimore$25M
- Steven LudwigBaltimore$2.7M
- Paul McAfeeBaltimore$2.2M
- Ira FedderTowson$1.1M
- Scott McGovernSalisbury$431K
- Amit JainBaltimore$250K
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.