Emory Chang
Orthopaedic Surgery · Long Beach, CANPI 1962593962
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $172,039 of the $225,875 with a category attached, or 76.2%. Orthopediatrics Corp. accounts for 76.2% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $46,952, 2.6 times the $17,931 reported in 2019. 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 123 payments — averaging $1836.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Orthopediatrics Corp.$172K
- Spineart USA Inc$25K
- Globus Medical$14K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$7K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$6K
- Stryker$1K
- plus $928 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$172,03976%
- Consulting fees$23,53410%
- Speaking & faculty fees$10,2005%
- Travel & lodging$15,9077%
- Food & beverage$4,1952%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Orthopediatrics Corp. | 19 | $172,039 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 37 | $24,532 |
| Globus Medical | 16 | $14,338 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 9 | $7,191 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 12 | $5,606 |
| Stryker | 8 | $1,240 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 9 | $256 |
| Spineart SA | 2 | $231 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $80 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $52 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 1 | $30 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $24 |
| Saxum Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Gilead | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $18 |
| Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Medicrea USA, Corp. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Orthopediatric Implants$10,195
- EXCELSIUS$8,354
- TrueLok$6,703
- Daytona Small Stature$5,250
- Perla TL$4,210
- Excelsius - GPS$2,838
- Excelsius Robotics System$2,212
- Anthem$778
- TRITANIUM$690
- FITBONE$258
- XIA$242
- VLIFT$242
- OASYS$242
- SERRATO$242
- TL-HEX TRUELOK HEXAPOD SYSTEM$156
- BAGUERA C$155
- Daytona$145
- Malibu$135
- MAKO$134
- XEOMIN$132
How this compares
$225,875 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Long Beach
- Amandeep BhallaLong Beach$1.8M
- 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
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.