Nitin Bhatia, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Orange, CANPI 1477633550
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 171 payments — averaging $6972.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$577K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$420K
- Spineart SA$65K
- Aurora Spine, Inc.$39K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$32K
- Life Spine, Inc.$28K
- plus $31K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,148,47496%
- Consulting fees$38,7143%
- Travel & lodging$2,4640%
- Food & beverage$2,7170%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 33 | $576,927 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 34 | $420,456 |
| Spineart SA | 4 | $64,577 |
| Aurora Spine, Inc. | 13 | $39,171 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 27 | $32,353 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 28 | $27,645 |
| Stryker | 3 | $14,600 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $6,599 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 4 | $5,137 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $2,393 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 2 | $1,022 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $618 |
| My01 Inc. | 3 | $360 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 3 | $274 |
| Neo Spine USA, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Abbott | 2 | $48 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $39 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Mariner$427,561
- Malibu$405,639
- Physio-Stim$163,749
- DISCOVERY TINANO ACIF$33,421
- PERLA C - CERVICAL POSTERIOR FIXATION$32,418
- Perla C Post$32,159
- Novel$20,685
- ProLift Pivot$20,418
- ESCALATE$14,600
- Novel CIS$11,605
- Novel TL$11,605
- Zyston Interbody$6,574
- ZIP$5,750
- ProLift Lateral$4,704
- ProLift$4,704
- AVATAR MINIMALLY INVASIVE SPINAL SYSTEM$4,704
- TruLift$4,704
- Zynrelef$2,393
- Dyna-Link Ti Barbs$2,352
- MYSPINE$1,022
How this compares
$1,192,370 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.
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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.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Orange
- Stacey BedermanOrange$3.7M
- Jeffrey DeckeyOrange$1.3M
- Jeremy SmithOrange$922K
- Jon WhiteOrange$889K
- Don ParkOrange$869K
- Hyun BaeSanta Monica$62.2M
- Choll KimSan Diego$4M
- Gregory Mundisla Jolla$3.5M
- Neelakantan AnandLos Angeles$3.2M
- Paul SlosarDaly City$3.1M
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.