Has Eric Fulkerson, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $117,274 in general payments to Eric Fulkerson, MD across 146 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Eric Fulkerson, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Eric Fulkerson, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Eric Fulkerson, MD

Orthopaedic Trauma · Walnut Creek, CANPI 1568581429

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $79,789 of the $117,274 with a category attached, or 68.0%. 28 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 47.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $75,920 and has fallen 88.1% since, to $9,049 in 2025.

$117,274in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 146 payments — averaging $803.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$55K
Conventus Orthopaedics, Inc.$55K
Flower Orthopedics Coporation$2K
Si-bone, Inc.$1K
Stryker$1K
Zimmer Biomet$763
plus $2K from 22 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$16,50514%
Consulting fees$79,78968%
Speaking & faculty fees$7,6006%
Travel & lodging$9,0508%
Food & beverage$4,3304%

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
Globus Medical	51	$55,344
Conventus Orthopaedics, Inc.	3	$54,833
Flower Orthopedics Coporation	1	$1,913
Si-bone, Inc.	19	$1,420
Stryker(2 entities)	13	$1,138
Zimmer Biomet	9	$763
Arthrex	7	$560
Bioventus LLC	13	$339
Paragon 28, Inc.	5	$149
Bard Access Systems, Inc.	2	$137
Smith+Nephew	2	$77
Evolution Surgical, Inc	1	$69
Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC	3	$62
Medshape, Inc.	1	$55
Amgen	2	$46
Encore Medical, LP	1	$45
BD	1	$43
Acera Surgical, Inc.	2	$41
Johnson & Johnson	1	$32
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$32
Teleflex LLC	1	$30
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$27
Organogenesis Inc.	1	$23
Biocomposites Inc	1	$23
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$21
Team_makena_llc	1	$20
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$19
Trevena, Inc.	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.

How this compares

$117,274 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 106 orthopaedic trauma providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$251,205

Medicare patients

399

Services billed

1,299

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
Meloxicam	53	$190
Ibuprofen	12	$35

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic trauma in Walnut Creek

Michael GardnerStanford$2.9M
Aaron OsborneRedding$1.3M
Robert Tonksla Jolla$1.3M
John ScolaroOrange$1M
David LowenbergSan Francisco$788K
Eric LindvallClovis$609K
Christopher LeeLos Angeles$475K
Joshua GaryLos Angeles$466K
Christopher HoshinoTorrance$356K
Julius BishopStanford$349K

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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.

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