David Yeh
Neurological Surgery · San Luis Obispo, CANPI 1720044415
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $186,097 of the $244,727 with a category attached, or 76.0%. Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. accounts for 66.5% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $63,584 and has fallen 68.5% since, to $20,004 in 2025. Among neurological 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 274 payments — averaging $893.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$163K
- Xtant Medical Inc$61K
- Centinel Spine, LLC$9K
- Corelink, LLC$6K
- Zavation Medical Products, LLC$2K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$1K
- plus $3K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$186,09776%
- Travel & lodging$34,14514%
- Food & beverage$24,38410%
- Gifts$1000%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 101 | $162,731 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 62 | $60,637 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 10 | $8,867 |
| Corelink, LLC | 35 | $6,044 |
| Zavation Medical Products, LLC | 7 | $2,216 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 11 | $1,444 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 12 | $1,040 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 3 | $457 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 5 | $371 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $333 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $234 |
| Abbott | 4 | $142 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 1 | $108 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $29 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $18 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $15 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $14 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 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.
- COFLEX INTERLAMINAR TECHNOLOGY, 10MM$81,301
- coflex$62,784
- COFIX IMPLANT 10 MM$26,130
- PRODISC L$4,894
- ALLOGRAFT$3,903
- PRODISC C VIVO$3,807
- FORTILINK CAGES WITH TIPLUS TECHNOLOGY$3,420
- STREAMLINE TL SPINAL FIXATION SYSTEM$1,893
- STREAMLINE* OCT OCCIPITO-CERVICO-THORACIC SYSTEM$1,893
- ARAI SURGICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM$1,771
- FORTILINK-L IBF SYSTEM WITH TETRAFUSE 3D TECHNOLOGY$1,527
- 7D Surgical System$1,028
- CellerateRx$457
- SPINAL IMPLANT$348
- SIMMETRY IMPLANT, 12.5MM X 50MM$256
- PROFICIENT POSTERIOR CERVICAL SPINE SYSTEM$225
- UNiD$142
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$139
- Spinal Implants$111
- FUSION LATERAL DISC PREP SET$110
How this compares
$244,727 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Calcitonin-SalmonCalcitonin,salmon,synthetic | 32 | $2,398 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 214 | $1,540 |
| Gabapentin | 124 | $948 |
| Pregabalin | 57 | $878 |
| Celecoxib | 51 | $678 |
| Methylprednisolone | 104 | $613 |
| Meloxicam | 111 | $456 |
| Baclofen | 16 | $376 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 28 | $291 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 30 | $266 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 13 | $189 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 16 | $127 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 21 | $121 |
| Ropinirole Hcl | 13 | $81 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 18 | $54 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in San Luis Obispo
- Benjamin HendricksSan Luis Obispo$202K
- 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
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.