RxDoctor Payments Data

Ali Bagheri, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · la Jolla, CANPI 1760632947

Payments from drug & device makers

$64,615in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 140 payments — averaging $461.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Globus Medical$40K
  • Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$20K
  • Viseon, Inc.$1K
  • Si-bone, Inc.$480
  • Curiteva, Inc.$412
  • Highridge Medical LLC$407
  • plus $2K from 19 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$57,12588%
  • Travel & lodging$60%
  • Food & beverage$7,25811%
  • Entertainment$410%
  • Other$1860%

General payments by program year

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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.

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.

How this compares

$64,615 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$248,085
Medicare patients
463
Services billed
1,268

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen62$479
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl51$303
Methylprednisolone55$290
Gabapentin44$286
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen13$108

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in la Jolla

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Where these figures come from

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