David Yeh, MD
Neurological Surgery · San Jose, CANPI 1194778290
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $38,512 of the $50,395 with a category attached, or 76.4%. Life Spine, Inc. accounts for 91.8% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $17,412, more than ten times the $139 reported in 2019.
Across 85 payments — averaging $592.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Life Spine, Inc.$46K
- Medtronic$1K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$910
- Innovasis Inc$651
- Globus Medical$591
- Spineology Inc.$125
- plus $452 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$38,51276%
- Travel & lodging$5,03610%
- Food & beverage$3,0356%
- Education$3,8138%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Life Spine, Inc. | 40 | $46,241 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 15 | $1,425 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 9 | $910 |
| Innovasis Inc | 2 | $651 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 7 | $591 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Corelink, LLC | 1 | $120 |
| Paradigm Spine, LLC | 1 | $64 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $53 |
| Nanohive Medical LLC | 1 | $52 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $38 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $32 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $23 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $23 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $21 |
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.
- Arx SAI$27,695
- ProLift Pivot$22,792
- ARx$19,867
- ProLift Max$19,270
- ARx Long Construct$12,446
- SIMpact$2,623
- ProLift$2,395
- GX Intrumentation$2,156
- Solstice$1,334
- NAUTILUS SPINAL SYSTEM$1,328
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$1,035
- COFLEX INTERLAMINAR TECHNOLOGY, 10MM$405
- coflex$209
- Excelsius Deformity$165
- ALIF$150
- Elite Expandable Interbody System$125
- Solstice Core System$109
- COFIX IMPLANT 10 MM$108
- RELINE$105
How this compares
$50,395 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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.
Other neurological surgery in San Jose
- Christopher AmesSan Francisco$7.1M
- Larry KhooLos Angeles$2.8M
- Samy AbdouSan Diego$2.4M
- Bret AbshireMurrieta$2.3M
- 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.