Braden McKnight, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · San Diego, CANPI 1366983587
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 122 payments — averaging $502.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc.$47K
- Stryker$10K
- Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$2K
- Cerapedics Inc.$1K
- Centinel Spine, LLC$410
- Globus Medical$327
- plus $1K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$44,12572%
- Travel & lodging$9,34315%
- Food & beverage$7,80813%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc. | 7 | $46,963 |
| Stryker | 74 | $9,814 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 9 | $1,611 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $1,044 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 2 | $410 |
| Globus Medical | 4 | $327 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $267 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $188 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $167 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $69 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $58 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $52 |
| Bsn Medical Inc | 1 | $39 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus | 1 | $31 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $27 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $24 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $22 |
| Moximed, Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $14 |
| Elevate Surgical Co | 1 | $13 |
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.
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$3,352
- N/A$1,996
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$1,274
- MagnetOs$1,264
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$1,044
- PRODISC L$410
- AERO-LL$341
- GAMMA$292
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$167
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$164
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$164
- NIAGARA LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$136
- OsteoStrand$131
- ALIF$116
How this compares
$61,276 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in San Diego
- Peter NewtonSan Diego$7M
- Joseph JankiewiczSan Diego$2.6M
- Mark McBrideSan Diego$2.6M
- Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
- Robert GorabOrange$14.5M
- Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
- Stephen HowellSacramento$9.4M
- Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
- Nirav AminPlacentia$5.8M
- Tom NorrisSan Francisco$5.3M
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.