Has Chelsea Hendow, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,008 in general payments to Chelsea Hendow, MD across 36 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 Chelsea Hendow, 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 Chelsea Hendow, 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.

Chelsea Hendow, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Los Gatos, CANPI 1568824860

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,008in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 36 payments — averaging $83.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$2K
Si-bone, Inc.$417
Heraeus Medical, LLC.$122
Boston Scientific$103
Medtronic$85
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$66
plus $6 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,76259%
Food & beverage$1,24641%

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
Globus Medical(2 entities)	20	$2,209
Si-bone, Inc.	8	$417
Heraeus Medical, LLC.	1	$122
Boston Scientific	4	$103
Medtronic	1	$85
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	1	$66
Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus	1	$6

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.

XLIF$1,655
TLIF$1,499
PALACOS$122
ALIF$106

How this compares

$3,008 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$203,109

Medicare patients

359

Services billed

1,076

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	128	$1,237
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	23	$280
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	16	$157
Meloxicam	34	$79
Oxycodone Hcl	12	$74
Lorazepam	13	$37

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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