Sepehr Sani, MD
Neurological Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1336281575
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (45.2%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 58.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $31,930 and has fallen 53.8% since, to $14,764 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 130 payments — averaging $890.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$68K
- Insightec,inc$35K
- Abbott$7K
- Clearpoint Neuro, Inc.$4K
- Boston Scientific$948
- Medtronic$418
- plus $491 from 4 others
Across 8 payments — averaging $10,548 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Abbott$76K
- Medtronic$9K
Across 4 payments — averaging $24,999 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Valencia Technologies Corporation$100K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$52,33145%
- Consulting fees$49,99243%
- Travel & lodging$8,0097%
- Food & beverage$5,3745%
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 | 35 | $68,083 |
| Insightec,inc | 40 | $34,601 |
| Abbott | 18 | $6,818 |
| Clearpoint Neuro, Inc. | 13 | $4,348 |
| Boston Scientific | 11 | $948 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $418 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $197 |
| GT Medical Technologies, Inc | 1 | $170 |
| Stryker | 2 | $116 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 2 | $9 |
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.
- Exablate$32,834
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$24,622
- CRANIAL$16,373
- Excelsius - GPS$12,193
- Neuromodulation Dspsbls and Accs$5,065
- CLEARPOINT$4,190
- Excelsius Cranial 1.0$1,913
- RISE$785
- Infinity DBS Pulse Generators$665
- INFINITY$557
- Excelsius Robotics System$478
- GENERAL DBS$389
- VNS - Symmetry$197
- GammaTile$170
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$166
- Proclaim IPG$144
- CREO$120
How this compares
$115,707 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 302 neurological surgery providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 12 | $101 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Chicago
- Tyler KoskiChicago$2.3M
- Vincent TraynelisChicago$1.8M
- Sergey NeckryshChicago$1.6M
- Richard FesslerChicago$910K
- John OtooleChicago$593K
- Fady CharbelChicago$507K
- Issam AwadChicago$266K
- Mohamad BydonChicago$163K
- Ali AlarajChicago$155K
- Konstantin SlavinChicago$153K
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.