RxDoctor Payments Data

Elizabeth Lord, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Santa Monica, CANPI 1669735973

Payments from drug & device makers

$209,802in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 497 payments — averaging $422.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Globus Medical$97K
  • Medtronic$52K
  • Si-bone, Inc.$23K
  • Johnson & Johnson$9K
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$5K
  • Alphatec Spine, Inc$4K
  • plus $19K from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$121,01058%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$23,53511%
  • Travel & lodging$41,80720%
  • Food & beverage$23,45011%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Globus Medical(2 entities)251$97,059
Medtronic(2 entities)62$52,312
Si-bone, Inc.39$22,999
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)16$9,174
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.18$4,894
Alphatec Spine, Inc21$4,309
Stryker24$3,664
Implanet America, Inc.3$3,167
Synthes GmbH3$2,083
Smaio SA9$2,018
Zimmer Biomet21$1,958
Degen Medical, Inc.5$1,935
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation5$1,405
Carlsmed, Inc.6$1,293
Abyrx, Inc1$325
Acuity Surgical Devices, LLC1$300
Augmedics Inc.2$172
Nevro Corp.2$160
Innovation Technologies Inc1$157
Integra Lifesciences Corporation1$135
Spinal Simplicity, LLC2$91
4web, Inc.1$86
Spineology Inc.2$84
Zimvie Inc.1$22

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.

How this compares

$209,802 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$318,829
Medicare patients
227
Services billed
794

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Gabapentin35$406
Tizanidine Hcl11$217
Oxycodone Hcl14$107

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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