David Savin, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Palm Springs, CANPI 1932498797
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $138,895 of the $187,267 with a category attached, or 74.2%. Encore Medical, LP accounts for 60.7% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 300 payments — averaging $624.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Encore Medical, LP$114K
- Stryker$48K
- Arthrex$12K
- Advanced Orthopaedic Solutions, Inc.$4K
- Empire Medical, Inc$3K
- Sportstek Medical, Inc$3K
- plus $3K from 13 others
Across 11 payments — averaging $5724.41 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.
- Stryker$63K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$138,89574%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,2503%
- Travel & lodging$23,63113%
- Food & beverage$13,7947%
- Education$4,6973%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Encore Medical, LP | 114 | $113,619 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 79 | $48,117 |
| Arthrex | 62 | $11,873 |
| Advanced Orthopaedic Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $4,311 |
| Empire Medical, Inc | 6 | $3,315 |
| Sportstek Medical, Inc | 4 | $2,784 |
| Vital Orthopedics LLC | 12 | $1,205 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 3 | $620 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $344 |
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 3 | $219 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $158 |
| Vertex | 2 | $152 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 3 | $150 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $101 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $93 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $71 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
- DJO SURGICAL$139,149
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$41,428
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$35,214
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$30,327
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$26,310
- DJO Surgical Discovery Elbow System$17,579
- AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$13,387
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$8,926
- AOS PRODUCTS$4,311
- T2 ALPHA$3,641
- SIMPLICITI$3,424
- TORNIER FLEX$2,212
- MAKO$1,338
- DJO Surgical Match Point System$945
- TORNIER PERFORM REVERSED AUGMENTED GLENOID$830
- REUNION$762
- EQUINOXE$620
- LATITUDE EV$415
- LATITUDE - ELBOW$415
- AEQUALIS$233
How this compares
$187,267 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Naloxone Hcl | 26 | $1,478 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 113 | $1,078 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 58 | $461 |
| Meloxicam | 98 | $366 |
| Methylprednisolone | 39 | $277 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 60 | $158 |
| Methocarbamol | 19 | $124 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 12 | $64 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 12 | $47 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Palm Springs
- Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
- Robert GorabOrange$13.6M
- Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
- Stephen HowellSacramento$9.4M
- Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
- Nirav AminPlacentia$5.6M
- Tom NorrisSan Francisco$5.3M
- Jay LiebermanLos Angeles$4.8M
- Peter NewtonSan Diego$4.2M
- Sigurd BervenSan Francisco$4.1M
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.