David Gonda
Neurological Surgery · San Diego, CANPI 1427254937
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 165 payments — averaging $277.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- PTC Therapeutics, Inc.$25K
- Medtronic$15K
- Monteris Medical Corporation$2K
- Neuropace, Inc.$2K
- Livanova USA, Inc.$258
- Neurelis, Inc.$200
- plus $1K from 19 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $853.13 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- PTC Therapeutics, Inc.$3K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$17,58038%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,19011%
- Travel & lodging$16,52736%
- Food & beverage$6,48914%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| PTC Therapeutics, Inc. | 9 | $25,296 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 65 | $14,967 |
| Monteris Medical Corporation | 10 | $2,456 |
| Neuropace, Inc. | 23 | $1,517 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 19 | $258 |
| Neurelis, Inc. | 4 | $200 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $143 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $101 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $100 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $97 |
| UCB, Inc. | 3 | $86 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $61 |
| Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Misonix Inc | 2 | $38 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 2 | $29 |
| Irras USA, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Biocodex, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Analogic Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $9 |
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.
- VISUALASE$12,971
- Neuroblate$2,187
- RNS Neurostimulator Kit$233
- VALTOCO$135
- RNS System$114
How this compares
$45,786 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 773 neurological surgery providers in California.
Other neurological surgery in San Diego
- Joseph CiacciSan Diego$2.6M
- Samy AbdouSan Diego$2.4M
- William TaylorSan Diego$2.1M
- Joseph OsorioSan Diego$1.4M
- Vikram UdaniSan Diego$1.1M
- Arash Khalessi-HosseiniSan Diego$897K
- Alois ZaunerSan Diego$759K
- Geoffrey ManleySan Francisco$24.9M
- Christopher AmesSan Francisco$7.1M
- Jamshid SalehRedding$4.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.