Nima Salari, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Phoenix, AZNPI 1598967911
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $465,037 of the $740,628 with a category attached, or 62.8%. 33 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medacta USA, Inc. at 39.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $222,666 and has fallen 83.9% since, to $35,796 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in AZ 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.
Across 721 payments — averaging $1027.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medacta USA, Inc.$294K
- Stryker$233K
- Globus Medical$112K
- Omnia Medical, LLC$79K
- Abbott$6K
- VB Spine LLC$4K
- plus $13K from 27 others
Across 11 payments — averaging $477.27 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.
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$3K
- Additive Implants, Inc.$2K
Across 14 payments — averaging $5903.69 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Amplify Surgical, Inc.$83K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$104,89314%
- Consulting fees$465,03763%
- Speaking & faculty fees$70,98910%
- Travel & lodging$80,25311%
- Food & beverage$19,4563%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 182 | $293,571 |
| Stryker | 279 | $233,167 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 68 | $112,098 |
| Omnia Medical, LLC | 4 | $79,000 |
| Abbott | 51 | $5,702 |
| VB Spine LLC | 5 | $4,488 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 5 | $3,289 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 16 | $2,299 |
| Amplify Surgical, Inc. | 12 | $1,871 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 51 | $1,550 |
| L&k Spine Inc | 1 | $1,400 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $284 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 4 | $273 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 6 | $271 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $227 |
| Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $177 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $155 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 6 | $119 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $105 |
| Spineology Inc. | 3 | $95 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $77 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $76 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 2 | $67 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $54 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $43 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 1 | $34 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Vertex | 1 | $25 |
| Trackx Technology, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Impactortho, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $5 |
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.
- MYSPINE$194,000
- Extreme Angle Cervical Plate$45,154
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$36,664
- RESONATE$36,350
- MUST$31,954
- RAVINE LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$24,675
- TRITANIUM$24,441
- ES2 SPINAL SYSTEM$20,955
- MECTALIF$18,595
- NIAGARA LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$18,508
- EVEREST MI$17,600
- EVEREST XT$17,600
- MUST MINI Set Screw$13,232
- LATERAL ACCESS SPINAL SYSTEM$12,875
- Mecta-C Cervical Cages$11,149
- ES2$10,800
- AIRO$10,621
- MONTEREY AL$10,500
- CANYON RETRACTOR SYSTEMS$10,000
- Xpand / Xpand-R$9,759
How this compares
$740,628 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Arizona.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 43 | $1,364 |
| Gabapentin | 54 | $510 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 14 | $221 |
| Methylprednisolone | 28 | $217 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 26 | $131 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 30 | $83 |
| Meloxicam | 29 | $55 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Phoenix
- Justin FieldPhoenix$2.3M
- Harvinder BediPhoenix$740K
- Mark WangPhoenix$573K
- Joshua AbramsPhoenix$311K
- Louis RappoportPhoenix$236K
- David JacksonPhoenix$189K
- Kunwar KhalsaPhoenix$182K
- Norman ChutkanPhoenix$114K
- Shaleen ViraPhoenix$109K
- Vikram MayuranPhoenix$76K
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.