Daniel Friedlich, MD
Neurological Surgery · Murrieta, CANPI 1073713657
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $9,875 of the $12,120 with a category attached, or 81.5%. Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 81.9% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $11,315 and has fallen 98.7% since, to $152 in 2025.
Across 27 payments — averaging $448.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$10K
- Stryker$1K
- Innovasis Inc$320
- Johnson & Johnson$163
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$137
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$129
- plus $237 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,87581%
- Travel & lodging$8967%
- Food & beverage$1,35011%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 3 | $9,923 |
| Stryker | 9 | $1,212 |
| Innovasis Inc | 1 | $320 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $163 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $137 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $129 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $125 |
| Ceribell, Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Monteris Medical Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $19 |
| Medtronic | 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.
- Cervical$7,500
- POSTERIOR CERVICAL$7,500
- IdentiTi$2,375
- IVS - VERTEBRAL AUGMENTATION PRODUCTS$1,014
- Restrata Wound Matrix$129
- XARELTO$125
- ANDEXXA$125
How this compares
$12,120 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 773 neurological surgery 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 | 39 | $840 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 29 | $552 |
| Gabapentin | 36 | $240 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 17 | $216 |
| Carisoprodol | 15 | $93 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Murrieta
- Bret AbshireMurrieta$2.3M
- Christopher AmesSan Francisco$7.1M
- Larry KhooLos Angeles$2.8M
- Samy AbdouSan Diego$2.4M
- William TaylorSan Diego$2.1M
- Tooraj GravoriEncino$2M
- Ali MesiwalaRancho Cucamonga$1.5M
- Joseph OsorioSan Diego$1.3M
- Ian JohnsonFresno$1.3M
- Aaron Cohen-GadolLos Angeles$1.3M
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.