Arash Aminian, MD
Foot and Ankle Surgery · Laguna Woods, CANPI 1154363554
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 152 payments — averaging $81.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$7K
- Micromed Inc$2K
- Saxum Surgical, Inc.$401
- Trilliant Surgical LLC.$270
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$269
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$173
- plus $2K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,99624%
- Food & beverage$7,22258%
- Education$2,18618%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker(2 entities) | 99 | $7,065 |
| Micromed Inc | 2 | $2,426 |
| Saxum Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $401 |
| Trilliant Surgical LLC. | 2 | $270 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 3 | $269 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $173 |
| Medshape, Inc. | 2 | $158 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $154 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $131 |
| Ossio Inc | 1 | $131 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $124 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $121 |
| Extremity Medical | 1 | $120 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $109 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $109 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $99 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $89 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $82 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $37 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $30 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- INFINITY$1,206
- INBONE$972
- PROstep$881
- PROPHECY$793
- INFINITY ADAPTIS$294
- Arsenal Sinus Support Plate$270
- CITREFIX$217
- MICA$149
- Lapiplasty System$147
- APTUS$146
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$131
- DynaNail Helix, Washer, 15 mm$129
- SALTO TALARIS TOTAL ANKLE PROSTHESIS$121
- CADENCE ANKLE REPLACEMENT SYSTEM$121
- HALLU-LOCK$121
- PANTA NAIL$121
- TOTAL FOOT SYSTEM$121
- Arsenal Ankle 10 Hole 1/3 Tubular Plate$121
- EXPAREL$121
- HOFFMANN$105
How this compares
$12,405 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,126 foot and ankle 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 92 | $410 |
| Celecoxib | 16 | $394 |
| SsdSilver Sulfadiazine | 33 | $253 |
| Gabapentin | 35 | $129 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 13 | $110 |
| Meloxicam | 21 | $76 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 16 | $64 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $12 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot and ankle surgery in Laguna Woods
- John ZimmermanBakersfield$4.6M
- Eric GizaSacramento$3.7M
- Thomas HarrisPasadena$3M
- Felix SigalLos Angeles$2.2M
- Thomas ChangSanta Rosa$2.1M
- Michael CoughlinSan Francisco$1.6M
- Vladimir ZeetserEncino$677K
- Jason NowakRedding$526K
- Candice BradyCamarillo$462K
- Andrew HsuOrange$456K
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.