Afshin Aminian
Orange, CANPI 1609805910
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $173,892 of the $257,246 with a category attached, or 67.6%. Medtronic accounts for 63.4% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 238 payments — averaging $1080.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$163K
- Medicrea USA, Corp.$89K
- Smaio SA$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Orthopediatrics Corp.$552
- Spineart USA Inc$231
- plus $1K from 15 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $19,717 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$39K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$173,89268%
- Consulting fees$24,0259%
- Speaking & faculty fees$47,70819%
- Travel & lodging$3,6011%
- Food & beverage$8,0203%
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 | 167 | $163,005 |
| Medicrea USA, Corp. | 32 | $89,276 |
| Smaio SA | 8 | $1,582 |
| Stryker | 1 | $1,500 |
| Orthopediatrics Corp. | 7 | $552 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 3 | $231 |
| Greer Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $175 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $121 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $121 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $117 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $109 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $95 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $91 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 2 | $80 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $57 |
| Saxum Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- PASS-LP$88,844
- UNiD$51,561
- UNID_PASS$30,332
- CD HORIZON$2,100
- GENERAL K2M PRODUCT DISCUSSION$1,500
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$922
- ENDOSKELETON TL$298
- PALFORZIA$175
- KOSELUGO$121
- MASTERGRAFT MATRIX EXT$121
- DJO Surgical Empowr Knee System$117
- EXPAREL$109
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.