Vikas Varma, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1386684314
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 159 payments — averaging $182.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$11K
- Globus Medical$7K
- Stryker$3K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- Ecential Robotics$1K
- plus $3K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6002%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,95924%
- Travel & lodging$13,20046%
- Food & beverage$8,20828%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 31 | $10,603 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 36 | $7,010 |
| Stryker | 17 | $2,749 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 12 | $2,706 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 10 | $1,838 |
| Ecential Robotics | 2 | $1,227 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 23 | $943 |
| Painteq LLC | 2 | $597 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 2 | $375 |
| Theragen, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $136 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 7 | $112 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $109 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 2 | $42 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Amgen | 1 | $17 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
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.
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$4,437
- DIVERGENCE-L$3,584
- Pulse$2,253
- COUGAR$1,521
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,336
- ALIF$1,301
- Excelsius - GPS$1,144
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$1,082
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$1,053
- Velys$979
- ELSA$965
- MAKO$724
- PAINTEQ$597
- INVICTUS OPEN$479
- XLIF$423
- Other - Miscellaneous$397
- XIA$372
- Teligen$328
- Solus ALIF$231
- LIF$208
How this compares
$28,967 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,079 orthopaedic surgery providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 51 | $386 |
| Celecoxib | 26 | $358 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 21 | $155 |
| Meloxicam | 33 | $113 |
| Pregabalin | 12 | $84 |
| Naproxen | 13 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in New York
- Anthony RomeoNew York$27M
- Lawrence LenkeNew York$26.8M
- Edwin SuNew York$14.1M
- William RicciNew York$11.6M
- Steven HaasNew York$11.5M
- Giles ScuderiNew York$10.9M
- Joseph ZuckermanNew York$9.9M
- Evan FlatowNew York$9.6M
- Bradford ParsonsNew York$9.4M
- Geoffrey WestrichNew York$8M
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.