Daniel Barba, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Escondido, CANPI 1407128580
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (52.3%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Aurora Spine, Inc. at 41.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $307,416, 2.3 times the $136,488 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.
Across 464 payments — averaging $3194.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Aurora Spine, Inc.$613K
- Globus Medical$476K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$229K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$97K
- DJO, LLC$26K
- Spineart SA$18K
- plus $23K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$774,69252%
- Consulting fees$689,73747%
- Travel & lodging$5,0790%
- Food & beverage$12,8151%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aurora Spine, Inc. | 57 | $613,447 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 200 | $475,733 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 79 | $229,044 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 72 | $97,318 |
| DJO, LLC | 21 | $25,761 |
| Spineart SA | 7 | $17,656 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 10 | $15,748 |
| The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education | 3 | $4,625 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 5 | $1,506 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $1,000 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $102 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $93 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $85 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Abbott | 1 | $22 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- ZIP$373,495
- Hedron$252,302
- HEDRON IA$208,839
- ZIP/SOLO-L$151,455
- Meridian$135,733
- Physio-Stim$97,789
- AURORA SPINE$88,497
- WaveForm C$27,884
- PROCARE$18,170
- Vu aPOD Prime NanoMetalene$12,619
- Mariner$9,660
- Brigade$8,000
- ROMEO 2 - CROSSLINK$6,903
- PERLA C$6,760
- Vu aPOD Prime$6,000
- SCARLET AL-T - HYPERLORDOTIC SECURED LUMBAR ANTERIOR CAGE$5,451
- MISCELLANEOUS$2,513
- CURE ACP$2,197
- Meridian WaveForm A$2,000
- Balboa Buttress Plate$1,500
How this compares
$1,482,323 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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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 277 | $2,640 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 157 | $1,961 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 132 | $662 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 47 | $644 |
| Celecoxib | 23 | $608 |
| Methylprednisolone | 41 | $329 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 16 | $169 |
| Ibuprofen | 12 | $142 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 11 | $121 |
| Meloxicam | 18 | $113 |
| Diazepam | 15 | $24 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Escondido
- Jeffrey SchiffmanEscondido$745K
- Hyun BaeSanta Monica$56.8M
- Choll KimSan Diego$4M
- Stacey BedermanOrange$3.7M
- Gregory Mundisla Jolla$3.3M
- Paul SlosarDaly City$3.1M
- Babak Barcohanavan Nuys$2.9M
- Neelakantan AnandLos Angeles$2.9M
- Sanjay KhuranaMarina del Rey$2.3M
- Neville AlleyneOceanside$2.2M
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.