Aaron Clark, MD
Neurological Surgery · San Francisco, CANPI 1518295815
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 460 payments — averaging $1846.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$642K
- Carlsmed, Inc.$75K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$67K
- Globus Medical$58K
- Icotec Medical Inc.$4K
- Si-bone, Inc.$991
- plus $2K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$18,36011%
- Consulting fees$105,13060%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,2002%
- Travel & lodging$27,59116%
- Food & beverage$19,60311%
- Entertainment$860%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 65 | $642,359 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 34 | $74,681 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 52 | $66,683 |
| Globus Medical | 265 | $58,301 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 14 | $4,329 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 9 | $991 |
| Stryker | 5 | $819 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $243 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 2 | $241 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 2 | $190 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 1 | $140 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $120 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $104 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $68 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $28 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- Other - Miscellaneous$63,820
- aprevo$37,139
- XLIF$18,568
- ALIF$8,806
- COHERE$5,379
- Pulse$3,741
- VADER PEDICLE SYSTEM 6.0, SCREW, Carbon/PEEK, POLYAX., FEN., O 5.5 X 45 MM$3,588
- VADER PEDICLE SYSTEM, ROD, Carbon/PEEK, CURVED, 6.0 R450 X 200 MM$3,588
- KONG-TL VBR E, EXPANDABLE BODY, L, 19 MM X 27 - 37 MM$3,588
- KONG-TL VBR, END PLATE, ROUND, L AND SCREW, 12 X 43 MM$3,588
- KONG-TL VBR, END PLATE, RECTANGULAR, M AND SCREW, 12 X 33 MM$3,588
- TLIF$2,358
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$1,963
- UNID_PASS$897
- X-CORE$621
- CoRoent$589
- LIF$567
- iFuse Implant$488
- Archon$461
- EVEREST$309
How this compares
$849,480 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 773 neurological surgery providers in California.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Naloxone Hcl | 18 | $1,165 |
| Gabapentin | 19 | $313 |
| Baclofen | 30 | $290 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in San Francisco
- Geoffrey ManleySan Francisco$24.9M
- Christopher AmesSan Francisco$7.1M
- Bruce McCormackSan Francisco$3.9M
- Jennie TaylorSan Francisco$2.7M
- Nicholas ButowskiSan Francisco$2.4M
- Luis SavastanoSan Francisco$1.7M
- Praveen MummaneniSan Francisco$1.1M
- Lee TanSan Francisco$722K
- Jang YoonSan Francisco$371K
- Jamshid SalehRedding$4.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.