Has Nikhil Jain, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,878 in general payments to Nikhil Jain, MD across 26 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 Nikhil Jain, 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 Nikhil Jain, 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.

Nikhil Jain, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Columbia, MONPI 1881188506

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,858 of the $2,878 with a category attached, or 64.6%. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 46.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,756, 2.7 times the $645 reported in 2021. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in MO, where the typical reported total is $12,644.

$2,878in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 26 payments — averaging $110.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$1K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$925
Globus Medical$423
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$147
Johnson & Johnson$32
Atricure, Inc.$26

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,85865%
Food & beverage$1,02035%

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
Medtronic	14	$1,325
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	6	$925
Globus Medical	3	$423
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	1	$147
Johnson & Johnson	1	$32
Atricure, Inc.	1	$26

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

$2,878 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 53 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$98,840

Medicare patients

129

Services billed

314

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
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	32	$124
Diclofenac Sodium	31	$86
Tramadol Hcl	13	$32

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Don MooreColumbia$18K
John MilesColumbia$15K
Jason KoreckijColumbia$4K
Thomas HighlandColumbia$1K

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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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