Santaram Vallurupalli, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Oklahoma City, OKNPI 1447412788
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $3,626 of the $5,388 with a category attached, or 67.3%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 38.5% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,674, 2.8 times the $1,295 reported in 2020. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in OK, where the typical reported total is $9,276.
Across 32 payments — averaging $168.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$2K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Icotec Medical Inc.$1K
- Vertex$39
- Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$26
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$25
- plus $40 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,62667%
- Food & beverage$1,76233%
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 | 11 | $2,074 |
| Globus Medical | 7 | $1,933 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 8 | $1,252 |
| Vertex | 2 | $39 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $17 |
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.
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,902
- Excelsius Robotics System$1,276
- CORRIDOR$168
- ACP$166
- Simplify Cervical Artificial Disc$166
- VADER PEDICLE SYSTEM 6.0, SCREW, Carbon/PEEK, POLYAX., FEN., O 5.5 X 45 MM$154
- KONG-TL VBR E, EXPANDABLE BODY, L, 19 MM X 27 - 37 MM$154
- VADER PEDICLE SYSTEM, ROD, Carbon/PEEK, CURVED, 6.0 R450 X 200 MM$154
- KONG-TL VBR, END PLATE, RECTANGULAR, M AND SCREW, 12 X 33 MM$154
- KONG-TL VBR, END PLATE, ROUND, L AND SCREW, 12 X 43 MM$154
- CREO$147
- Quartex$108
How this compares
$5,388 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 21 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Oklahoma.
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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 | 84 | $921 |
| Pregabalin | 42 | $709 |
| Celecoxib | 18 | $489 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 11 | $66 |
| Meloxicam | 24 | $63 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Oklahoma City
- Winston FongOklahoma City$758K
- Cheng-Lun SooOklahoma City$327K
- Brett BralyOklahoma City$279K
- Jeffrey MooreOklahoma City$198K
- Kevin WileyOklahoma City$39K
- Cody GriffinOklahoma City$21K
- Cameron ShiraziOklahoma City$15K
- Scott de la GarzaOklahoma City$4K
- Timothy PuckettOklahoma City$130
- Jeffrey SchimandleOklahoma City$17
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.