Venu Nemani, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Seattle, WANPI 1265757710
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (59.4%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Orthofix Medical, Inc. at 39.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $94,592, more than ten times the $2,876 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in WA 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 402 payments — averaging $495.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$78K
- Medtronic$66K
- Stryker$14K
- Highridge Medical LLC$14K
- Globus Medical$9K
- Augmedics Inc.$6K
- plus $12K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$118,37359%
- Speaking & faculty fees$37,12019%
- Travel & lodging$25,55513%
- Food & beverage$18,0649%
- Gifts$340%
- Entertainment$610%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 67 | $77,678 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 101 | $66,229 |
| Stryker | 26 | $14,249 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 26 | $13,843 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 89 | $9,388 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 16 | $6,149 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 31 | $5,837 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 10 | $1,333 |
| Smaio SA | 5 | $1,168 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $862 |
| Viseon, Inc. | 4 | $834 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $554 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $393 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 3 | $304 |
| EBI, LLC | 1 | $122 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $68 |
| Invictus Surgical Incorporated | 1 | $63 |
| Theradaptive, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $34 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Medicrea USA, Corp. | 1 | $25 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Mariner$45,792
- Xvision$29,241
- 7D Surgical System$19,803
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$19,030
- UNID_PASS$18,584
- CD HORIZON$14,769
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$13,417
- NAVIGATION$10,500
- MESA SPINAL SYSTEM$10,500
- Spine-None$7,622
- XLIF$5,303
- MISCELLANEOUS$4,429
- Mariner Deformity$4,139
- UNiD$4,060
- Virage$4,047
- Other - Miscellaneous$4,017
- Vital$1,581
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$996
- NorthStar$859
- Pulse$742
How this compares
$199,206 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 61 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Washington.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Teriparatide | 11 | $39,168 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Seattle
- Rajiv SethiSeattle$2.9M
- Richard BransfordSeattle$413K
- Jens ChapmanSeattle$394K
- Philip LouieSeattle$132K
- Nicholas SpinaSeattle$98K
- Farhan KarimSeattle$59K
- Haitao ZhouSeattle$48K
- Edward JungSeattle$35K
- Carlo BellabarbaSeattle$13K
- Karina KatchkoSeattle$13K
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.