Has Cory Pham, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,161 in general payments to Cory Pham, MD across 51 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 Cory Pham, 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 Cory Pham, 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.

Cory Pham, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Modesto, CANPI 1811351729

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,161in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 51 payments — averaging $199.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Evolution Surgical, Inc$5K
Saxum Surgical, Inc.$1K
Empire Medical, Inc$1K
Stryker$936
Arthrex$884
Axogen$730
plus $456 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,39714%
Food & beverage$1,78318%
Education$6,98169%

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
Evolution Surgical, Inc	6	$4,683
Saxum Surgical, Inc.	3	$1,259
Empire Medical, Inc	2	$1,213
Stryker	8	$936
Arthrex	6	$884
Axogen	13	$730
Globus Medical	5	$168
Trimed, Inc.	1	$128
Johnson & Johnson	2	$55
Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc.	3	$51
Smith+Nephew	1	$36
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$18

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

$10,161 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$154,654

Medicare patients

362

Services billed

1,308

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	12	$98

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Tom NorrisSan Francisco$5.3M
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Sigurd BervenSan Francisco$4.1M

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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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