Andrew Platt, MD
Neurological Surgery · Loma Linda, CANPI 1518348036
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (50.8%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 48.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $3,900 and has fallen 98.8% since, to $49 in 2025.
Across 91 payments — averaging $167.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$7K
- Globus Medical$3K
- Synthes GmbH$2K
- Baxter Healthcare$2K
- Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.$315
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$178
- plus $685 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,68011%
- Travel & lodging$7,72951%
- Food & beverage$5,80938%
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(2 entities) | 60 | $7,402 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 18 | $3,279 |
| Synthes GmbH | 2 | $1,680 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $1,680 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $315 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $178 |
| GT Medical Technologies, Inc | 1 | $170 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $150 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 2 | $125 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $107 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $90 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
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.
- FLOSEAL$1,680
- O-ARM-ST$1,653
- FORTIFY$1,622
- CD HORIZON$834
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$714
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$648
- Quartex$485
- Magellan$315
- O-ARM$308
- RELINE$298
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$298
- CLYDESDALE PTC SPINAL SYSTEM$291
- Excelsius Robotics System$201
- Medical Device$178
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$170
- GammaTile$170
- REVERE Corrective Osteotomy$167
- UNID_PASS$166
- SafeOp$150
- XLIF$123
How this compares
$15,218 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 20 | $240 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Loma Linda
- Christopher AmesSan Francisco$7.1M
- Larry KhooLos Angeles$2.8M
- Samy AbdouSan Diego$2.4M
- Bret AbshireMurrieta$2.3M
- William TaylorSan Diego$2.1M
- Tooraj GravoriEncino$2M
- Ali MesiwalaRancho Cucamonga$1.5M
- Joseph OsorioSan Diego$1.3M
- Ian JohnsonFresno$1.3M
- Aaron Cohen-GadolLos Angeles$1.3M
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.