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Christopher Finkemeier, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Carmichael, CANPI 1619990710

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $245,660 of the $358,409 with a category attached, or 68.5%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 81.1% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $116,534 and has fallen 96.2% since, to $4,444 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery 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.

$358,409in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 283 payments — averaging $1266.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$291K
  • Synthes GmbH$55K
  • Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.$9K
  • Johnson & Johnson$3K
  • Lifenet Health$169
  • Illuminoss Medical, Inc.$125
  • plus $312 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Royalty or licence$5,9412%
  • Consulting fees$245,66069%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$32,4639%
  • Travel & lodging$68,07719%
  • Food & beverage$6,2682%

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
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.147$290,749
Synthes GmbH63$55,329
Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.29$9,191
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)34$2,536
Lifenet Health1$169
Illuminoss Medical, Inc.2$125
Evolution Surgical, Inc1$122
Stryker1$84
Acell, Inc.2$41
Integra Lifesciences Corporation1$28
Kerecis Limited1$22
Synthes USA Products LLC1$15

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

$358,409 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$93,999
Medicare patients
107
Services billed
181

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen17$163

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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