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

Nikhil Murthy

Neurological Surgery San Diego, CA Medical Doctor

NPI 1710371273 CMS profile 7220309

200 W Arbor Dr, San Diego, CA 92103

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General payments

$32,771

116 records reported · program years 2020–2025

Research payments

$3,200

Paid to them · 2 records reported · program years 2020–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$114,373

3 holdings reported · through program year 2025

Through program year 2025, Nikhil Murthy of San Diego, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $32,771 across 116 general payments and $3,200 in research payments paid to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $114,373 across 3 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.

General payments for this record sit in the 83rd percentile of Neurological Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

8 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $23,252 55
2025 Research $1,200 1
2024 General $6,085 45
2023 General $3,110 11
2022 Research $2,000 1
2020 General $324 5
2025 Ownership $114,373 2
2019 Ownership $0 1

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Nikhil Murthy were reported at $23,252. 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 Nikhil Murthy Neurological Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $582 $138–$3,006 $163
2020 $324 $294 $76–$2,174 $114
2021 $0 $387 $105–$2,432 $132
2022 $0 $542 $139–$2,989 $149
2023 $3,110 $534 $145–$2,697 $160
2024 $6,085 $574 $155–$3,046 $164
2025 $23,252 $596 $159–$3,102 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. icotec Medical Inc. $13,627 43 payments
  2. Neo Spine USA Inc $6,265 4 payments
  3. Globus Medical, Inc. $3,308 16 payments
  4. Alafair Biosciences,Inc. $3,046 4 payments
  5. Medtronic, Inc. $2,193 22 payments
  6. Clariance, Inc. $2,075 8 payments
  7. Tulavi Therapeutics, Inc. $583 3 payments
  8. Stryker Corporation $324 5 payments
  9. AxoGen $292 2 payments
  10. Bioventus LLC $281 2 payments
  11. Other $777 7 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $14,100 3 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $9,119 28 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $6,802 84 payments
  4. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $2,750 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. KONG-TL VBR E, EXPANDABLE BODY, L, 19 MM X 27 - 37 MM $9,266 20 payments
  2. VADER PEDICLE SYSTEM, ROD, CARBON/PEEK, CURVED, 6.0 R450 X 200 MM $9,266 20 payments
  3. KONG-TL VBR, END PLATE, RECTANGULAR, M AND SCREW, 12 X 33 MM $9,266 20 payments
  4. KONG-TL VBR, END PLATE, ROUND, L AND SCREW, 12 X 43 MM $9,266 20 payments
  5. VADER PEDICLE SYSTEM 6.0, SCREW, CARBON/PEEK, POLYAX., FEN., O 5.5 X 45 MM $9,266 20 payments
  6. Neo Pedicle Screw System $6,265 4 payments
  7. VersaWrap $3,046 4 payments
  8. Excelsius3D Imaging System $2,428 2 payments
  9. Idys-ALIF $1,993 6 payments
  10. Erisma-LP $1,993 6 payments
  11. Other $7,523 78 payments

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

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. Hubly Incorporated $3,200 2 payments

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 39 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$40,974

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

142

Average age 74

Services billed

243

68 women, 74 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
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 66%
Depression 39%
Diabetes 37%
Atrial fibrillation 33%
Chronic kidney disease 31%
Ischemic heart disease 30%
Heart failure 26%

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

118 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

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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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