Andrew Nguyen
Neurological Surgery · San Diego, CANPI 1720216542
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 231 payments — averaging $406.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spineart SA$46K
- Globus Medical$42K
- Spineart USA Inc$2K
- Brainlab, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$927
- Johnson & Johnson$402
- plus $1K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$45,73449%
- Consulting fees$16,62518%
- Speaking & faculty fees$15,56317%
- Travel & lodging$4,8895%
- Food & beverage$11,07712%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spineart SA | 3 | $45,734 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 170 | $41,781 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 7 | $2,200 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 13 | $1,829 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 17 | $927 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $402 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 3 | $245 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $166 |
| Amplify Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $116 |
| Stryker | 3 | $103 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $62 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Abbott | 1 | $53 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $53 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 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.
- Perla C Post$45,734
- Lateral Lumber IBF$9,750
- CREO$5,769
- ELSA, ELSA AL/ATP$5,438
- CORBEL$3,938
- TRANSCONTINENTAL$3,746
- XLIF$2,750
- Excelsius Robotics System$1,620
- MARS 3VL$1,500
- Excelsius - GPS$1,091
- Image Guided Surgical Device$779
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$296
- RISE-L$286
- RISE$266
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$232
- COALITION MIS$229
- Perla TL$226
- ELSA$190
- MARS TLIF Retractor$188
- AQUAMANTYS$157
How this compares
$93,887 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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.
Other neurological surgery in San Diego
- Joseph CiacciSan Diego$2.6M
- Samy AbdouSan Diego$2.4M
- William TaylorSan Diego$2.1M
- Joseph OsorioSan Diego$1.4M
- Vikram UdaniSan Diego$1.1M
- Arash Khalessi-HosseiniSan Diego$897K
- Alois ZaunerSan Diego$759K
- Geoffrey ManleySan Francisco$24.9M
- Christopher AmesSan Francisco$7.1M
- 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.