Nima Alan, MD
Neurological Surgery · San Francisco, CANPI 1194106526
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 265 payments — averaging $390.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$38K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$20K
- Globus Medical$14K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$13K
- Cerapedics Inc.$6K
- Spineart USA Inc$4K
- plus $8K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$65,07663%
- Travel & lodging$21,69721%
- Food & beverage$16,74916%
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 | 92 | $37,680 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 37 | $20,133 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 41 | $13,799 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 9 | $13,462 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 11 | $6,326 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 5 | $4,008 |
| Medtronic | 41 | $3,932 |
| Stryker | 18 | $3,338 |
| Spineology Inc. | 3 | $281 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 1 | $153 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $78 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $55 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Evolution Surgical, Inc | 1 | $41 |
| Abbott | 1 | $24 |
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.
- Other - Miscellaneous$23,506
- MISCELLANEOUS$8,427
- NorthStar$7,077
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$6,101
- SafeOp$5,710
- BIOLOGICS$4,345
- CORE$2,770
- LTP$2,500
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$1,246
- INVICTUS OPEN$1,027
- FORTIFY$932
- UNID_PASS$802
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$759
- Meridian$698
- XLIF$604
- Invictus MIS$600
- RELINE$581
- LIF$514
- Battalion TLIF - PC$392
- Mariner MIS$295
How this compares
$103,523 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 773 neurological surgery providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baclofen | 11 | $120 |
| Gabapentin | 13 | $105 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in San Francisco
- Geoffrey ManleySan Francisco$24.9M
- Christopher AmesSan Francisco$7.1M
- Bruce McCormackSan Francisco$3.9M
- Jennie TaylorSan Francisco$2.7M
- Nicholas ButowskiSan Francisco$2.4M
- Luis SavastanoSan Francisco$1.7M
- Praveen MummaneniSan Francisco$1.1M
- Aaron ClarkSan Francisco$849K
- Lee TanSan Francisco$722K
- Jang YoonSan Francisco$371K
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.