Choll Kim
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · San Diego, CANPI 1124043765
Payments from drug & device makers
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
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
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) | 348 | $3,328,224 |
| Elliquence, LLC | 22 | $346,871 |
| Nutech Spine, Inc. | 80 | $102,405 |
| Stryker | 45 | $81,258 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 30 | $63,072 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 25 | $42,775 |
| VB Spine LLC | 4 | $15,701 |
| Allen Medical Systems | 12 | $15,600 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 6 | $8,533 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $5,718 |
| Medtronic | 38 | $3,031 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 2 | $1,750 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $628 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $206 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $205 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $199 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 2 | $171 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 2 | $161 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $123 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $123 |
| Choice Spine, LLC | 1 | $67 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $53 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $50 |
| Pylant Medical | 1 | $44 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 2 | $41 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $38 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $27 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Amplify Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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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Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in San Diego
- Ramin RaiszadehSan Diego$917K
- Richard AllenSan Diego$654K
- Jean-Jacques AbitbolSan Diego$595K
- Oliver TannousSan Diego$566K
- Neil TayyabSan Diego$293K
- Vinko ZlomislicSan Diego$215K
- Hyun BaeSanta Monica$62.2M
- Stacey BedermanOrange$3.7M
- Gregory Mundisla Jolla$3.5M
- Neelakantan AnandLos Angeles$3.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.