Has Alexander Gertel, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,607 in general payments to Alexander Gertel, MD across 26 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Alexander Gertel, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Alexander Gertel, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Alexander Gertel, MD

Otolaryngology · Torrance, CANPI 1003270117

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,607in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 26 payments — averaging $61.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$732
Stryker$595
Medtronic$83
Optinose US, Inc.$58
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$35
Aerin Medical Inc.$31
plus $73 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,35184%
Education$25516%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	10	$732
Stryker	6	$595
Medtronic	2	$83
Optinose US, Inc.	3	$58
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$35
Aerin Medical Inc.	1	$31
Smith+Nephew	1	$30
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	1	$28
GSK	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.

Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation System$421
NA$255
XPRESS ENT DILATION SYSTEM$131
Inspire$105

How this compares

$1,607 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,021 otolaryngology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$164,764

Medicare patients

423

Services billed

1,051

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
Ipratropium Bromide	155	$3,378
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth	21	$2,197
Fluticasone Propionate	170	$1,952
Azelastine Hcl	60	$1,328
Fluocinolone Acetonide Oil	16	$524
Famotidine	46	$347
Omeprazole	18	$283
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	36	$255
Ofloxacin	11	$237
Pantoprazole Sodium	37	$230
Dexamethasone	13	$138
Doxycycline Hyclate	15	$124
Montelukast Sodium	12	$100
Methylprednisolone	11	$88
Mupirocin	17	$77

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Torrance

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Brett LevineTorrance$46K
Randall OwRoseville$4.3M
Amir MoradiVista$2.6M
Brian WeeksSan Diego$1.6M
Charles LimbSan Francisco$1.5M
Andrew BerosSan Diego$688K
Paul SchalchChula Vista$573K
Arnaud BewleySacramento$541K
Keith BlackwellLos Angeles$349K

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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.

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