Philip Louie, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Seattle, WANPI 1780098509
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (58.2%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 24 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.5%. 2025 is the largest year on record at $66,745, more than ten times the $1,314 reported in 2019.
Across 371 payments — averaging $356.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$27K
- Medtronic$20K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$18K
- Augmedics Inc.$16K
- Highridge Medical LLC$16K
- Viseon, Inc.$10K
- plus $25K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$76,97858%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,8206%
- Travel & lodging$27,06920%
- Food & beverage$20,19215%
- Education$1390%
- Gifts$340%
- Entertainment$650%
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) | 68 | $27,165 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 70 | $20,427 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 34 | $17,650 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 33 | $16,412 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 11 | $15,760 |
| Viseon, Inc. | 24 | $9,806 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 41 | $9,372 |
| Synthes GmbH | 8 | $6,224 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 11 | $2,350 |
| Stryker | 15 | $1,844 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 10 | $1,333 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 16 | $1,110 |
| Arthrex | 11 | $813 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $615 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 4 | $596 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $227 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $105 |
| Degen Medical, Inc. | 1 | $86 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $79 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $65 |
| Invictus Surgical Incorporated | 1 | $63 |
| Theradaptive, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 1 | $26 |
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.
- Xvision$78,754
- MARS$14,575
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$10,582
- MaxView System - Lateral Set$8,683
- Spine-None$8,625
- XLIF$5,138
- Vital$3,750
- Other - Miscellaneous$3,708
- Virage$3,340
- Vital Deformity, Degen, Hooks$2,700
- Vitality Power$2,700
- MOBI-C PLUG & FIT US$2,700
- Excelsius - GPS$2,497
- ARAI SURGICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM$1,908
- COFLEX INTERLAMINAR TECHNOLOGY, 10MM$1,781
- SIMMETRY IMPLANT, 12.5MM X 50MM$1,781
- Teligen$1,642
- ALIF$1,375
- UNID_PASS$1,261
- FORTILINK CAGES WITH TIPLUS TECHNOLOGY$1,229
How this compares
$132,296 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 61 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Washington.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 22 | $269 |
| Methylprednisolone | 35 | $247 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 13 | $91 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Seattle
- Rajiv SethiSeattle$2.9M
- Richard BransfordSeattle$413K
- Jens ChapmanSeattle$394K
- Venu NemaniSeattle$199K
- Nicholas SpinaSeattle$98K
- Farhan KarimSeattle$59K
- Haitao ZhouSeattle$48K
- Edward JungSeattle$35K
- Carlo BellabarbaSeattle$13K
- Karina KatchkoSeattle$13K
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.