Overview
- Aditya Humad, the former chief financial officer of SpineFrontier, was sentenced to four months in federal prison, followed by one year of supervised release and a $9,500 fine.
- Humad pleaded guilty in May to conspiracy to pay bribes and admitted directing and paying more than $540,000 to surgeons to induce use of SpineFrontier devices.
- The scheme used contracts that paid surgeons between $250 and $1,000 per hour for consulting work they often did not perform, with those payments tied to surgeries billed to Medicare, Medicaid and the Veterans Health Administration.
- Federal and civil actions have recovered more than $4 million related to the scheme, and civil settlements require Humad to pay about $150,000 more with interest while founder Kingsley R. Chin faces separate civil payments and was previously sentenced to home confinement in August 2025.
- Investigators from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, HHS OIG and the FBI said the case undermined patient safeguards and taxpayer trust, closing a major criminal chapter in a multi‑year probe and signaling continued scrutiny of consulting arrangements in medical device sales.