Ali Ghorbanifarajzadeh, DPM
Primary Podiatric Medicine · Bakersfield, CANPI 1164824249
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $11,896 of the $16,880 with a category attached, or 70.5%. It is spread thinly across 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.4%. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $5,738 and has fallen 96.4% since, to $208 in 2025. Among primary podiatric medicine clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 142 payments — averaging $118.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$4K
- Stryker$3K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$3K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Medline Industries LP$1K
- Nvision Biomedical Technologies, Inc.$1K
- plus $3K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$11,89670%
- Food & beverage$3,78322%
- Education$1,2007%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 32 | $3,619 |
| Stryker | 30 | $3,083 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 25 | $2,563 |
| Smith+Nephew | 18 | $2,234 |
| Medline Industries LP | 6 | $1,406 |
| Nvision Biomedical Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $1,228 |
| Empire Medical, Inc | 2 | $1,209 |
| Arthrex | 4 | $810 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $186 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 5 | $123 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $100 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $69 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Curvebeam LLC | 1 | $53 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $27 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $27 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $22 |
| Merck | 1 | $17 |
| Bsn Medical 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.
- SALTO TALARIS TOTAL ANKLE PROSTHESIS$2,515
- PROstep$2,511
- TrueLok$1,969
- Cadence$1,331
- Integra XT$1,331
- Foot and Ankle$1,228
- CADENCE ANKLE REPLACEMENT SYSTEM$1,184
- TOTAL FOOT SYSTEM$849
- PRIMATRIX$818
- HALLU-LOCK$713
- PANTA NAIL$713
- BILAYER WOUND MATRIX (BWM)$695
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$695
- IDRT$695
- FLOWABLE$695
- Panta 2$627
- TL-HEX TRUELOK HEXAPOD SYSTEM$596
- INTEGRA$369
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$144
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$123
How this compares
$16,880 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 59 primary podiatric medicine providers in California.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ammonium Lactate | 223 | $3,351 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 15 | $1,251 |
| Cephalexin | 244 | $802 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 21 | $534 |
| Ketoconazole | 18 | $361 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 73 | $350 |
| Meloxicam | 135 | $280 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 34 | $232 |
| Gabapentin | 57 | $221 |
| Celecoxib | 11 | $129 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 45 | $112 |
| Methylprednisolone | 12 | $71 |
| Mupirocin | 12 | $63 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other primary podiatric medicine in Bakersfield
- James WangLos Angeles$250K
- Adam ShapiroUpland$21K
- Abid ChaudhryArleta$11K
- Matthew GarrisonSacramento$7K
- Linh HuynhTurlock$7K
- Yvette CanabaSantee$5K
- David KhakshoorLos Angeles$4K
- Katrina SergeevaVista$4K
- Christyn MarshallDanville$3K
- Sloan GordonRancho Mirage$3K
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.