Christos Photopoulos, MD
Sports Medicine · Los Angeles, CANPI 1346568342
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 89 payments — averaging $137.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$5K
- Arthrex$2K
- Tigon Medical LLC$2K
- Saxum Surgical, Inc.$1K
- Micromed Inc$864
- Stryker$855
- plus $1K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,70047%
- Travel & lodging$7416%
- Food & beverage$3,72931%
- Education$2,04117%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 16 | $4,848 |
| Arthrex | 19 | $1,641 |
| Tigon Medical LLC | 1 | $1,500 |
| Saxum Surgical, Inc. | 6 | $1,329 |
| Micromed Inc | 2 | $864 |
| Stryker | 8 | $855 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $516 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $150 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $137 |
| Team_makena_llc | 8 | $94 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $88 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $46 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $27 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $22 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Q-FIX$4,448
- SPATIAL FRAME$4,200
- MICRORAPTOR$4,200
- NOVOSTITCH$4,200
- ULTRABUTTON$4,200
- CINCHLOCK$553
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$248
- MONOVISC$239
- Coblation$133
- CAP-FIX$133
- N/A$119
- ORTHOVISC$119
- CINCHLOCK SS$114
How this compares
$12,211 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 662 sports medicine providers in California.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 12 | $228 |
| Meloxicam | 30 | $38 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 13 | $28 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Los Angeles
- Neal ElattracheLos Angeles$51M
- Carleton VangsnessLos Angeles$872K
- Kristofer JonesLos Angeles$605K
- Michael BanffyLos Angeles$578K
- Seth GamradtLos Angeles$567K
- Reza OmidLos Angeles$400K
- Orr LimpisvastiLos Angeles$335K
- George HatchLos Angeles$255K
- David McAllisterLos Angeles$186K
- Stephen LiuLos Angeles$169K
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.