Has Shari Cui, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $31,933 in general payments to Shari Cui, MD across 62 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Shari Cui, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Shari Cui, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Shari Cui, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Columbia, SCNPI 1356570741

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (47.3%), speaking fees and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Synthes GmbH at 51.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $17,864, more than ten times the $563 reported in 2020.

$31,933in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 62 payments — averaging $515.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Synthes GmbH$16K
Globus Medical$12K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$3K
Nexxt Spine LLC$136
Abbott$136
Johnson & Johnson$120

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$4,72515%
Speaking & faculty fees$10,56333%
Travel & lodging$15,10647%
Food & beverage$1,5405%

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
Synthes GmbH	24	$16,496
Globus Medical	23	$11,892
Alphatec Spine, Inc	11	$3,153
Nexxt Spine LLC	1	$136
Abbott	1	$136
Johnson & Johnson	2	$120

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.

Quartex$7,350
Other - Miscellaneous$2,662
ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$1,824
Excelsius3D Imaging System$984
COALITION$761
RISE-L . RISE-L A/L$551
Nexxt Spine Product Offerings$136
PROCLAIM$136
CORRIDOR$103

How this compares

$31,933 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 32 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$238,369

Medicare patients

185

Services billed

870

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
Diclofenac Sodium	13	$236
Gabapentin	15	$125

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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