Ari Youderian, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Laguna Woods, CANPI 1083818173
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $119,799 of the $167,543 with a category attached, or 71.5%. Exactech, Inc. accounts for 94.0% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $45,341 and has fallen 73.5% since, to $11,995 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 156 payments — averaging $1073.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Exactech, Inc.$157K
- Stryker$3K
- Saxum Surgical, Inc.$3K
- Empire Medical, Inc$3K
- Arthrex$956
- Encore Medical, LP$377
- plus $382 from 6 others
Across 18 payments — averaging $11,252 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Exactech, Inc.$203K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$8391%
- Consulting fees$119,79972%
- Travel & lodging$37,06322%
- Food & beverage$7,4424%
- Education$2,4001%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Exactech, Inc. | 108 | $157,442 |
| Stryker | 18 | $3,139 |
| Saxum Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $2,653 |
| Empire Medical, Inc | 2 | $2,594 |
| Arthrex | 7 | $956 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 4 | $377 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $153 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $109 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $49 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $35 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $25 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- EQUINOXE$118,264
- EXACTECHGPS$4,875
- ICONIX$829
- Verasense$751
- AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$707
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$589
- TRULIANT$371
- INSPACE$172
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$144
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$144
- EXPAREL$121
How this compares
$167,543 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 29 | $113 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Laguna Woods
- Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
- Robert GorabOrange$13.6M
- Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
- Stephen HowellSacramento$9.4M
- Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
- Nirav AminPlacentia$5.6M
- Tom NorrisSan Francisco$5.3M
- Jay LiebermanLos Angeles$4.8M
- Peter NewtonSan Diego$4.2M
- Sigurd BervenSan Francisco$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.