Saad Chaudhary, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Cleveland, OHNPI 1902073794
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (48.3%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 51.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $37,143 and has fallen 96.1% since, to $1,436 in 2025.
Across 241 payments — averaging $350.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$44K
- Globus Medical$21K
- Integrity Implants Inc.$9K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$5K
- Synthes GmbH$2K
- Si-bone, Inc.$930
- plus $3K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$40,75048%
- Speaking & faculty fees$13,50016%
- Travel & lodging$16,16519%
- Food & beverage$13,08015%
- Education$8741%
- Entertainment$530%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 45 | $43,786 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 101 | $20,835 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 21 | $8,833 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 19 | $4,830 |
| Synthes GmbH | 3 | $2,415 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 10 | $930 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $696 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 13 | $523 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $402 |
| Spineology Inc. | 3 | $302 |
| DJO, LLC | 5 | $244 |
| Theragen, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 2 | $129 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $90 |
| Republic Spine | 1 | $64 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $48 |
| EBI, LLC | 1 | $40 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $40 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $34 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $23 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $8 |
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.
- XIA$34,372
- TRITANIUM$27,503
- ES2$26,218
- ALTERA$13,479
- FlareHawk$7,957
- Other - Miscellaneous$3,972
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$2,888
- AERO$2,239
- SERRATO$2,239
- XLIF$1,728
- OASYS$1,569
- RELINE$1,466
- Excelsius - GPS$1,393
- VuePoint$874
- MaXcess$874
- Teligen$304
- N/A$270
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$234
- IdentiTi$224
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$175
How this compares
$84,422 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Ohio.
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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 | 18 | $270 |
| Methylprednisolone | 15 | $105 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Cleveland
- Jason SavageCleveland$735K
- Jerold GurleyCleveland$649K
- Haariss IlyasCleveland$314K
- Zachary GordonCleveland$73K
- Taylor PaziukCleveland$32K
- Jonathan BeldingCleveland$15K
- Bilal ButtCleveland$13K
- Prashant RajanCleveland$9K
- Emily HuCleveland$9K
- Christina ChengCleveland$3K
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.