Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Adam Kanter

Neurological Surgery Pittsburgh, PA Medical Doctor

NPI 1770791709 CMS profile 126619

200 Lothrop St, Puh, B-400, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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General payments

$2,553,432

368 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$657,597

2 holdings reported · through program year 2025

Research they led as principal investigator

$29,530 paid to institutions, not to them · program year 2020

Through program year 2025, Adam Kanter of Pittsburgh, PA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $2,553,432 across 368 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $29,530 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $657,597 across 2 holdings.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of Neurological Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

9 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $500,572 46
2024 General $87,853 18
2023 General $225,197 80
2022 General $305,506 64
2021 General $385,302 53
2020 General $691,413 53
2019 General $357,590 54
2024 Ownership $142,565 1
2023 Ownership $515,032 1

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Adam Kanter
  • Neurological Surgery median
  • Middle half of Neurological Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Adam Kanter were reported at $500,572. Among 5,467 Neurological Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $596 and the middle half received between $159 and $3,102.

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Year Adam Kanter Neurological Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $357,590 $582 $138–$3,006 $163
2020 $691,413 $294 $76–$2,174 $114
2021 $385,302 $387 $105–$2,432 $132
2022 $305,506 $542 $139–$2,989 $149
2023 $225,197 $534 $145–$2,697 $160
2024 $87,853 $574 $155–$3,046 $164
2025 $500,572 $596 $159–$3,102 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. NuVasive, Inc. $1,526,540 154 payments
  2. Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $400,563 12 payments
  3. Highridge Medical LLC $315,687 13 payments
  4. Globus Medical, Inc. $263,252 17 payments
  5. Zimvie Inc. $31,900 14 payments
  6. Medtronic, Inc. $7,800 27 payments
  7. Alphatec Spine, Inc $2,827 13 payments
  8. Stryker Corporation $2,171 37 payments
  9. AbbVie, Inc. $390 21 payments
  10. Curiteva, Inc. $361 2 payments
  11. Other $1,941 58 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $1,210,025 33 payments
  2. Royalty or License $1,133,341 51 payments
  3. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $174,803 1 payment
  4. Travel and Lodging $16,641 66 payments
  5. Food and Beverage $13,856 214 payments
  6. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a non-accredited and noncertified continuing education program $4,000 1 payment
  7. Education $547 1 payment
  8. Entertainment $218 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. XLIF Spine/Spine Surgery $689,373 25 payments
  2. XLIF Spine/Spine Surgery $448,295 26 payments
  3. Timberline $399,520 8 payments
  4. Polaris 4.75 Spinal System $294,295 1 payment
  5. TLIF Spine/Spine Surgery $160,680 3 payments
  6. TLIF Spine/Spine Surgery $120,487 4 payments
  7. Modulus Spine/Spine Surgery $109,253 17 payments
  8. PLIF Spine/Spine Surgery $100,000 1 payment
  9. PLIF Spine/Spine Surgery $100,000 1 payment
  10. Modulus Spine/Spine Surgery $41,123 7 payments
  11. Other $81,519 279 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 37 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$85,397

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

139

Average age 75

Services billed

306

68 women, 71 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
Arthritis 75%
High blood pressure 72%
Ischemic heart disease 29%
Depression 25%
Diabetes 23%
Chronic kidney disease 22%
Osteoporosis 22%
Atrial fibrillation 16%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

368 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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