Has Nitin Khanna, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $702,320 in general payments to Nitin Khanna, MD across 149 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 Nitin Khanna, 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 Nitin Khanna, 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.

Nitin Khanna, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Munster, INNPI 1679582803

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $578,981 of the $702,320 with a category attached, or 82.4%. Globus Medical accounts for 86.2% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in IN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$702,320in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 149 payments — averaging $4713.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$605K
Baxter Healthcare$80K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$13K
Baudax Bio Inc.$2K
Spineology Inc.$887
Si-bone, Inc.$273
plus $356 from 5 others

$380in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $54.29 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

Spineology Inc.$380

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$578,98182%
Consulting fees$71,19510%
Speaking & faculty fees$31,0004%
Travel & lodging$5,0571%
Food & beverage$2,2720%
Education$13,8152%

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)	94	$605,446
Baxter Healthcare	21	$80,368
Alphatec Spine, Inc	19	$13,348
Baudax Bio Inc.	2	$1,642
Spineology Inc.	1	$887
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$273
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	1	$148
Medtronic	5	$123
Johnson & Johnson	2	$71
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.	1	$10
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	1	$4

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.

RELINE$477,008
CoRoent$457,467
PLIF$340,852
SpheRx$298,592
MaXcess$213,875
FLOSEAL$60,050
ExcelsiusGPS$30,188
Affix$24,391
No Related Product$20,280
COHERE$19,260
Other - Miscellaneous$10,543
TLIF$10,231
SafeOp$6,850
Modulus$6,750
XLIF$4,891
Pulse$4,319
ANJESO$1,633
INVICTUS OPEN$1,620
INVICTUS VISE$1,500
Invictus MIS$1,500

How this compares

$702,320 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 48 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$100,711

Medicare patients

131

Services billed

353

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	74	$665
Gabapentin	40	$621
Tizanidine Hcl	66	$206
Methylprednisolone	44	$158
Tramadol Hcl	15	$42

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Munster

James St ClairMunster$8K
Gregory McComisMunster$7K
Rick SassoCarmel$1.6M
David SchwartzIndianapolis$1.5M
Zeshan HyderCrown Point$1.1M
Gregory PoulterIndianapolis$995K
Michael McMainsIndianapolis$686K
Mohammad MajdNew Albany$504K
Deepak ReddySouth Bend$496K
Paul KraemerCarmel$276K

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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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