David Skaggs
Orthopaedic Surgery · Los Angeles, CANPI 1245333061
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $2,288,279 of the $2,568,369 with a category attached, or 89.1%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Highridge Medical LLC at 33.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $644,501, 2.4 times the $271,917 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery 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 348 payments — averaging $7380.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Highridge Medical LLC$851K
- Zimvie Inc.$803K
- Zimmer Biomet$766K
- Globus Medical$141K
- Medtronic$6K
- EBI, LLC$383
- plus $1K from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,288,27989%
- Consulting fees$199,4448%
- Speaking & faculty fees$27,3001%
- Travel & lodging$37,5871%
- Food & beverage$5,8060%
- Education$9,4790%
- Gifts$4750%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Highridge Medical LLC | 61 | $850,923 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 30 | $803,140 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 129 | $765,546 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 79 | $140,953 |
| Medtronic | 29 | $6,398 |
| EBI, LLC | 4 | $383 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $311 |
| Stryker | 3 | $284 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 3 | $271 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $87 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Orthopediatrics Corp. | 1 | $29 |
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.
- Vitality$1,036,804
- Vital$721,124
- The Tether$552,638
- Vitality Power$48,875
- Walter$37,570
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$37,549
- Vital Deformity, Degen, Hooks$34,542
- Polaris 4.75 Spinal System$25,585
- Polaris Posterior Spinal System$24,667
- Vital Deformity$21,725
- Sable$18,900
- Spine-None$17,878
- Vital MIS$17,450
- DuraPro$13,650
- Timberline$13,645
- Mobi-C$13,645
- PrimaGen$13,645
- Handpiece Power System$13,325
- ROSA Spine$13,050
- Excelsius - GPS$12,676
How this compares
$2,568,369 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Los Angeles
- Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
- Jay LiebermanLos Angeles$4.8M
- Thomas SchmalzriedLos Angeles$4M
- David ThordarsonLos Angeles$2.5M
- Edward McPhersonLos Angeles$1.2M
- Daniel AllisonLos Angeles$1.1M
- Justin SalimanLos Angeles$912K
- Charles MoonLos Angeles$760K
- Andrew SpitzerLos Angeles$738K
- Yashar JavidanLos Angeles$685K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.