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Neelakantan Anand

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Los Angeles, CANPI 1093849069

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $2,524,878 of the $2,929,749 with a category attached, or 86.2%. Medtronic accounts for 91.9% of it on its own, with 40 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$2,929,749in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 626 payments — averaging $4680.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$2.7M
  • Spinal Simplicity, LLC$103K
  • Cerapedics Inc.$34K
  • Globus Medical$22K
  • Orthofix Medical, Inc.$22K
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$21K
  • plus $36K from 35 others
$152,172in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $4755.38 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.

  • Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$77K
  • Premia Spine, Ltd.$44K
  • Spinal Elements, Inc.$31K
$120,790in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $17,256 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

  • Spinal Simplicity, LLC$100K
  • Atlas Spine, Inc.$21K

What the payments were for

  • Royalty or licence$2,524,87886%
  • Consulting fees$237,7598%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$102,6214%
  • Travel & lodging$27,9531%
  • Food & beverage$36,2631%
  • Education$1700%
  • Entertainment$1050%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Medtronic(2 entities)227$2,692,792
Spinal Simplicity, LLC17$102,546
Cerapedics Inc.35$33,927
Globus Medical(2 entities)52$21,867
Orthofix Medical, Inc.47$21,705
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.21$20,950
Spinal Elements, Inc.72$6,320
Carlsmed, Inc.25$5,418
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.5$3,622
Viseon, Inc.5$2,689
Alphatec Spine, Inc17$2,675
Smaio USA Corporation7$2,621
Neo Spine USA, Inc.13$2,383
Centinel Spine, LLC4$1,955
Johnson & Johnson27$1,723
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc9$1,615
Spinevision Inc.1$724
Curiteva, Inc.2$681
Integrity Implants Inc.3$396
MML US, Inc.3$357
Highridge Medical LLC3$316
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation2$261
Zimmer Biomet3$253
Adcura, Inc.3$237
Spineology Inc.3$215
Baxter Healthcare3$192
Stryker1$169
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated3$147
Trackx Technology, Inc.1$144
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.1$137
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.1$123
AbbVie1$121
Spineart USA Inc1$104
Biocomposites Inc1$84
Novapproach Spine, LLC1$56
Innovasis Inc1$54
Augmedics Inc.1$48
Expanding Innovations, Inc.1$40
Sanara Medtech Inc.1$37
Si-bone, Inc.1$34
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.1$12

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.

How this compares

$2,929,749 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.

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