Product Program year 2025 Source: CMS Open Payments

PLX

Device Orthopedics/Orthopedic Surgery

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General payments

$122,550

24 payments

Research payments

$0

0 payments

Through program year 2025, $122,550 in general payments and $0 in research payments were reported against PLX (Orthopedics/Orthopedic Surgery).

No combined total These are different kinds of money, reported under different rules. A meal and a clinical trial grant do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

By program year

2 rows
Year Kind Amount Payments
2025 General $76,175 12
2024 General $46,375 12

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2024–2025
  1. Alphatec Spine, Inc $122,550 24 payments
Top recipients General payments · program year 2025
  1. Stephen Tolhurst Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Flower Mound, TX $24,925 33% · 2 payments
  2. Laith Khoury Neurological Surgery · Raleigh, NC $22,000 29% · 5 payments
  3. Nicholas Shepard Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Murfreesboro, TN $12,500 16% · 2 payments
  4. Brian Oshaughnessy Neurological Surgery · Nashville, TN $10,750 14% · 2 payments
  5. Blake Staub Neurological Surgery · Houston, TX $6,000 8% · 1 payment

Each share is of general payments naming this product in 2025.

Specialties paid General payments · program year 2025
  1. Neurological Surgery $38,750 51% · 3 practitioners
  2. Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Orthopaedic Surgery $37,425 49% · 2 practitioners

Each share is of general payments naming this product to practitioners with a specialty in 2025. Each practitioner is counted under their primary specialty.

Where the money went General payments · program year 2025
  1. Texas $30,925 41% · 2 recipients
  2. North Carolina $22,000 29% · 1 recipient
  3. New York $12,500 16% · 1 recipient
  4. Tennessee $10,750 14% · 1 recipient

Each share is of general payments naming this product in 2025 where a state was reported.

24 general

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Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

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