Sanat Dixit, MD
Neurological Surgery · Huntsville, ALNPI 1801885819
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Globus Medical accounts for 70.7% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,435 and has fallen 93.9% since, to $210 in 2025.
Across 51 payments — averaging $91.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$3K
- Medtronic$1K
- Penumbra, Inc.$137
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,73558%
- Food & beverage$1,94442%
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) | 15 | $3,309 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 35 | $1,233 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $137 |
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.
- XLIF$2,948
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$289
- Artemis$137
- ELSA$118
How this compares
$4,679 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 97 neurological surgery providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 106 | $918 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 84 | $847 |
| Methocarbamol | 143 | $716 |
| Methylprednisolone | 65 | $554 |
| Gabapentin | 74 | $461 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 34 | $264 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 32 | $88 |
| Meloxicam | 30 | $77 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Huntsville
- John JohnsonHuntsville$250K
- Cheng TaoHuntsville$236K
- Joel PickettHuntsville$72K
- Jason BanksHuntsville$65K
- Rhett MurrayHuntsville$4K
- Moneeb EhteshamHuntsville$3K
- Thomas OstergardHuntsville$2K
- Mark HadleyBirmingham$104K
- Andrew ErwoodBirmingham$85K
- Marshall HollandBirmingham$81K
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.