Nina Lara, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Phoenix, AZNPI 1164816302
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $31,667 of the $49,864 with a category attached, or 63.5%. Globus Medical accounts for 68.7% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $23,674 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $33 in 2025. 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 149 payments — averaging $334.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$34K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$6K
- Stryker$5K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Abbott$1K
- Medtronic$330
- plus $2K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$31,66764%
- Travel & lodging$10,53621%
- Food & beverage$7,06714%
- Education$5951%
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(2 entities) | 42 | $34,275 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 24 | $5,957 |
| Stryker | 23 | $4,723 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 22 | $1,442 |
| Abbott | 12 | $1,425 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $330 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $307 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $301 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 7 | $233 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $205 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $156 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $112 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $95 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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$3,539
- XIA$2,575
- SERRATO$2,458
- PROCLAIM$1,107
- ANCHOR C$957
- ESCALATE$957
- OASYS$957
- TRITANIUM$832
- AERO$605
- ES2$605
- CREO MIS$530
- Vitality$464
- Excelsius - GPS$365
- NONE$327
- YUKON$293
- XLIF$292
- Timberline$233
- RELINE$221
- INVICTUS OPEN$167
- M6-C$156
How this compares
$49,864 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 28 | $232 |
| Methylprednisolone | 29 | $193 |
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.