Has Bert Mandelbaum, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $52,229 in general payments to Bert Mandelbaum, MD across 200 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Bert Mandelbaum, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Bert Mandelbaum, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Bert Mandelbaum, MD

Sports Medicine · Santa Monica, CANPI 1770673840

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (36.8%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 55.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $15,427 and has fallen 76.4% since, to $3,647 in 2025. Among sports medicine 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.

$52,229in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 200 payments — averaging $261.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$29K
Linvatec Corporation$10K
Averitas Pharma Inc.$4K
Micromed Inc$3K
Smith+Nephew$905
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$720
plus $5K from 18 others

$55,778in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $55,778 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

Overture Orthopaedics$56K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$15,99531%
Speaking & faculty fees$19,20037%
Travel & lodging$5,91311%
Food & beverage$8,70317%
Education$2,4005%
Entertainment$190%

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
Arthrex	108	$29,024
Linvatec Corporation	12	$9,897
Averitas Pharma Inc.	5	$4,179
Micromed Inc	6	$2,787
Smith+Nephew	9	$905
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	1	$720
Stryker	5	$650
Saxum Surgical, Inc.	5	$643
RTI Surgical, Inc	2	$570
Johnson & Johnson	10	$396
Aesculap Biologics, LLC	4	$356
DJO, LLC	3	$318
Vericel Corporation	2	$300
Joint Restoration Foundation, Inc.	3	$268
Bioventus LLC	7	$262
Organogenesis Inc.	1	$250
Ossio Inc	1	$143
Overture Orthopaedics	3	$141
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$133
Catalyst Orthoscience	1	$84
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	6	$73
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$67
Avanos Medical	1	$41
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$22

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.

How this compares

$52,229 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 662 sports medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$321,965

Medicare patients

402

Services billed

3,693

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 sports medicine in Santa Monica

Thomas KnappSanta Monica$2.5M
Michael GerhardtSanta Monica$328K
Frank PetriglianoSanta Monica$115K
Neal ElattracheLos Angeles$51M
Nathaniel CohenLos Gatos$6.4M
Michael FreehillStanford$1.6M
Allan MishraMenlo Park$1.5M
Heinz Hoeneckela Jolla$1.4M
Seth ShermanStanford$1.1M
Stephan YacoubianBurbank$1M

See the full list for California →

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.

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