Nicolas Grisoni, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Phoenix, AZNPI 1104959220
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (40.8%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 47.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $5,700, more than ten times the $77 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in AZ, where the typical reported total is $49,864.
Across 71 payments — averaging $162.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$5K
- Clariance, Inc.$2K
- Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC$959
- Nexus Spine, LLC$594
- Si-bone, Inc.$512
- Medtronic$498
- plus $2K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,68823%
- Travel & lodging$4,71141%
- Food & beverage$3,55531%
- Gifts$5945%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 16 | $5,471 |
| Clariance, Inc. | 3 | $1,750 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 4 | $959 |
| Nexus Spine, LLC | 3 | $594 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 7 | $512 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $498 |
| Corelink, LLC | 3 | $303 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 3 | $241 |
| Abbott | 3 | $229 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $213 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $168 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 3 | $149 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 2 | $147 |
| Stryker | 2 | $136 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $52 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Impactortho, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $19 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $18 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Idys-ALIF ZP 3DTi$1,750
- ACTIVL ARTIFICIAL DISC$938
- Excelsius - GPS$767
- Xvision$644
- PressOn$437
- Simplify Cervical Artificial Disc$281
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$136
- PROCLAIM$136
- ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$133
- Senza$132
- ALIF$122
- MAKO$119
- INCEPTIV$118
- iFuse Implant$113
- MARS Anterior Retractor$103
How this compares
$11,546 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Arizona.
See all orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Arizona →
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 128 | $867 |
| Gabapentin | 86 | $859 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 62 | $517 |
| Pregabalin | 14 | $450 |
| Methocarbamol | 64 | $250 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 23 | $192 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 18 | $53 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 11 | $11 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Phoenix
- Justin FieldPhoenix$2.3M
- Nima SalariPhoenix$741K
- Harvinder BediPhoenix$740K
- Mark WangPhoenix$573K
- Joshua AbramsPhoenix$311K
- Louis RappoportPhoenix$236K
- David JacksonPhoenix$189K
- Kunwar KhalsaPhoenix$182K
- Norman ChutkanPhoenix$114K
- Shaleen ViraPhoenix$109K
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.