Has Brian Su, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $65,562 in general payments to Brian Su, MD across 349 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 Brian Su, 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 Brian Su, 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.

Brian Su, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Larkspur, CANPI 1063690782

Payments from drug & device makers

$65,562in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 349 payments — averaging $187.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$13K
Biotronik NRO, Inc.$13K
Spineart USA Inc$12K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$10K
Corelink, LLC$6K
Johnson & Johnson$2K
plus $9K from 38 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$26,23840%
Speaking & faculty fees$100%
Travel & lodging$15,63524%
Food & beverage$23,57936%
Gifts$1000%

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	27	$13,267
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	16	$12,537
Spineart USA Inc	43	$12,304
Alphatec Spine, Inc	108	$10,198
Corelink, LLC	12	$5,614
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	41	$2,432
Abbott	10	$1,172
Globus Medical(2 entities)	6	$980
GS Solutions, Inc.	1	$651
Medtronic(2 entities)	6	$633
Boston Scientific	4	$489
Painteq LLC	4	$460
Si-bone, Inc.	8	$451
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	4	$429
Spineology Inc.	3	$379
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	4	$373
Medacta USA, Inc.	3	$332
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	2	$314
Cerapedics Inc.	3	$307
Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.	11	$234
Intuitive Surgical	2	$189
Centinel Spine, LLC	2	$162
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	2	$151
Life Spine, Inc.	1	$150
Bioventus LLC	1	$145
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	2	$127
Sanara Medtech Inc.	3	$110
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	1	$94
Zimvie Inc.	1	$89
Integrity Implants Inc.	1	$87
Davol Inc.	1	$67
Carlsmed, Inc.	1	$67
Spineart SA	1	$63
Augmedics Inc.	1	$63
Camber Spine Technologies LLC	1	$62
VB Spine LLC	1	$61
Mimedx Group, Inc.	1	$57
Curonix LLC	1	$56
Biotronik Inc.	2	$42
Innovasis Inc	2	$42
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	1	$40
Pfizer	1	$33
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	2	$27
Biocomposites Inc	1	$24

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.

Prospera$12,110
TRITANIUM$11,296
XIA$11,000
Other - Miscellaneous$3,618
PERLA C$3,180
Scarlet AL-T$1,500
MULTIPLE$1,311
CONDUIT$712
RISE-L$560
YUKON$558
Perla TL$534
Proclaim IPG$517
PAINTEQ$372
IdentiTi$359
Cervical$294
ESCALATE$275
ES2$275
RAVINE$275
Aspida$267
MYSPINE$253

How this compares

$65,562 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$382,939

Medicare patients

600

Services billed

1,697

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	50	$466
Oxycodone Hcl	47	$365
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	18	$265
Tramadol Hcl	16	$79
Prednisone	13	$57
Lorazepam	12	$32

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Larkspur

Hyun BaeSanta Monica$62.2M
Choll KimSan Diego$4M
Stacey BedermanOrange$3.7M
Gregory Mundisla Jolla$3.5M
Neelakantan AnandLos Angeles$3.2M
Paul SlosarDaly City$3.1M
Babak Barcohanavan Nuys$2.9M
Rick DelamarterSanta Monica$2.3M
Sanjay KhuranaMarina del Rey$2.3M
Neville AlleyneOceanside$2.2M

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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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