Norman Chutkan, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Phoenix, AZNPI 1689682890
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $72,970 of the $114,080 with a category attached, or 64.0%. Globus Medical accounts for 66.0% of it on its own, with 25 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $34,955 and has fallen 73.8% since, to $9,167 in 2025.
Across 186 payments — averaging $613.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$75K
- Synthes GmbH$25K
- Cerapedics Inc.$4K
- Stryker$3K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- plus $3K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$72,97064%
- Consulting fees$5,7005%
- Speaking & faculty fees$13,50012%
- Travel & lodging$10,92810%
- Food & beverage$10,5739%
- Education$4090%
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) | 57 | $75,325 |
| Synthes GmbH | 31 | $25,178 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $4,200 |
| Stryker | 19 | $2,555 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 7 | $1,894 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 17 | $1,530 |
| Medtronic | 10 | $784 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 17 | $412 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $276 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 4 | $233 |
| Impactortho, Inc. | 1 | $163 |
| My01 Inc. | 2 | $142 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 2 | $138 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $135 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $134 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Goode Surgical Inc | 1 | $118 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Terumo BCT, Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Axogen | 1 | $102 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $99 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $65 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $64 |
| GS Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $57 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
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.
- REVERE Anterior$44,212
- REVERE$22,485
- REVERE 5.5 Degen Ti System$5,540
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$4,200
- Other - Miscellaneous$752
- MAKO$696
- Pulse$651
- REVERE ADDITION$646
- VARIAX$455
- VIPER$353
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$326
- AEQUALIS$320
- XLIF$286
- AXSOS$283
- RELINE$283
- TRIGEN InterTAN$250
- Spine & Trauma 3D Navigation$240
- EZOUT$173
- GAMMA$169
- Spinal-Stim$163
How this compares
$114,080 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th 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 | 35 | $329 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 22 | $290 |
| Methylprednisolone | 26 | $181 |
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
- 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.