Venu Vemuri, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Louisville, KYNPI 1972637866
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $752,420 of the $796,249 with a category attached, or 94.5%. Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 99.8% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 84 payments — averaging $9479.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$794K
- Stryker$1K
- Si-bone, Inc.$217
- Baxter Healthcare$192
- Abbott$155
- Pfizer$58
- plus $90 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$752,42094%
- Consulting fees$29,7504%
- Travel & lodging$12,6992%
- Food & beverage$1,2670%
- Education$250%
- Entertainment$890%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 57 | $794,342 |
| Stryker | 6 | $1,196 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 6 | $217 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $192 |
| Abbott | 6 | $155 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $58 |
| Neo Spine USA, Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $21 |
| Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Invictus MIS$674,776
- Other - Miscellaneous$69,529
- INVICTUS OPEN$50,408
- Battalion TLIF - PC$8,000
- KODIAK$4,250
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,000
- IVS - VERTEBRAL AUGMENTATION PRODUCTS$125
- FLOSEAL$102
How this compares
$796,249 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 29 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Kentucky.
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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 | 233 | $1,885 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 85 | $751 |
| Pregabalin | 61 | $720 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 48 | $616 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 36 | $330 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 56 | $120 |
| Methylprednisolone | 30 | $102 |
| Diazepam | 88 | $87 |
| Methocarbamol | 11 | $69 |
| Carisoprodol | 13 | $35 |
| Meloxicam | 11 | $16 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Louisville
- Jeffery GumLouisville$3.5M
- Mladen DjurasovicLouisville$3.1M
- Roger OwensLouisville$1.3M
- Charles CrawfordLouisville$836K
- Joseph LarattaLouisville$819K
- Kathryn McCarthy MulloolyLouisville$426K
- John DimarLouisville$266K
- Steven GlassmanLouisville$249K
- John JohnsonLouisville$247K
- Mitchell CampbellLouisville$212K
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.