Vivek Kushwaha, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Houston, TXNPI 1982681730
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 215 payments — averaging $2940.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spineart SA$426K
- Spinefrontier, Inc.$93K
- Premia Spine, Ltd.$59K
- Spineart USA Inc$45K
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$2K
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$1K
- plus $6K from 26 others
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spineart SA | 10 | $426,316 |
| Spinefrontier, Inc. | 13 | $93,015 |
| Premia Spine, Ltd. | 18 | $58,963 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 56 | $45,291 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 17 | $1,925 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 14 | $1,137 |
| Amgen | 37 | $953 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $791 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $379 |
| Abbott | 5 | $374 |
| Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C. | 2 | $369 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 2 | $311 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $269 |
| Stryker | 3 | $246 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $203 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $200 |
| Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC | 2 | $187 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $185 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $154 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $149 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $146 |
| Clariance, Inc. | 1 | $142 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $142 |
| Stability Biologics, LLC | 1 | $126 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $70 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $5 |
How this compares
$632,242 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 207 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Texas.
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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.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Houston
- David WimberleyHouston$2.2M
- Shah-Nawaz DodwadHouston$710K
- Leonard KibuuleHouston$669K
- Robert MohrHouston$352K
- Bernhard MeyerHouston$238K
- Ra'kerry RahmanHouston$188K
- Ryan StuckeyHouston$181K
- Rex MarcoHouston$174K
- Richard FrancisHouston$156K
- Comron SaifiHouston$94K
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.