The CFO of a spinal implant company has pleaded guilty to conspiring to pay more than $540,000 in bribes to surgeons in exchange for using the company’s products, the Justice Department said in a May 12 news release.
Aditya Humad, of Cambridge, Mass., served as CFO of SpineFrontier, a formerly Malden, Mass.-based spinal device company. Mr. Humad entered into sham consulting contracts with surgeons, paying them between $250 and $1,000 per hour for work they did not perform, in exchange for using SpineFrontier’s products in surgeries billed to Medicare, Medicaid and the Veterans Health Administration. SpineFrontier received millions of dollars in revenue from the arrangement.
Mr. Humad pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 6. SpineFrontier founder and CEO Kingsley Chin, MD, pleaded guilty in May 2025 to making false statements to CMS and was sentenced to one year of supervised release. All kickback charges against SpineFrontier as a company were dropped by the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts in January 2025.
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