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Choll Kim

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · San Diego, CANPI 1124043765

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $3,100,831 of the $4,017,365 with a category attached, or 77.2%. Globus Medical accounts for 82.8% of it on its own, with 35 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $923,164, 2.2 times the $410,970 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$4,017,365in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 660 payments — averaging $6086.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Globus Medical$3.3M
  • Elliquence, LLC$347K
  • Nutech Spine, Inc.$102K
  • Stryker$81K
  • Cerapedics Inc.$63K
  • Spinal Elements, Inc.$43K
  • plus $53K from 30 others
$5,060in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 5 payments — averaging $1011.97 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.

  • Spinal Elements, Inc.$5K

What the payments were for

  • Royalty or licence$3,100,83177%
  • Consulting fees$602,51515%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$242,4126%
  • Travel & lodging$60,7692%
  • Food & beverage$10,6390%
  • Education$1990%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Globus Medical(2 entities)348$3,328,224
Elliquence, LLC22$346,871
Nutech Spine, Inc.80$102,405
Stryker45$81,258
Cerapedics Inc.30$63,072
Spinal Elements, Inc.25$42,775
VB Spine LLC4$15,701
Allen Medical Systems12$15,600
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.6$8,533
Pfizer5$5,718
Medtronic38$3,031
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.2$1,750
Boston Scientific8$628
Si-bone, Inc.3$206
Johnson & Johnson3$205
Zimmer Biomet1$199
Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC2$171
Integrity Implants Inc.2$161
Myovant Sciences Inc.1$124
DJO, LLC1$123
Baxter Healthcare4$123
Choice Spine, LLC1$67
Centinel Spine, LLC1$53
Curonix LLC1$50
Pylant Medical1$44
Intrinsic Therapeutics2$41
Olympus America Inc.1$38
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated2$38
KCI USA, Inc.2$31
Procept Biorobotics Corporation1$28
Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited1$27
Dilon Technologies, Inc.1$21
Amplify Surgical, Inc.1$15
Misonix Inc1$14
Augmedics Inc.1$11
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.1$10

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

$4,017,365 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.

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