Eric Klineberg, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Sacramento, CANPI 1528163003
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $653,458 of the $996,383 with a category attached, or 65.6%. 35 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 32.9% of the total. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine 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 713 payments — averaging $1397.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$328K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$268K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$162K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$83K
- VB Spine LLC$46K
- Johnson & Johnson$44K
- plus $66K from 29 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $6949.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Pfizer$14K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$239,75024%
- Consulting fees$653,45866%
- Speaking & faculty fees$10,1251%
- Travel & lodging$65,3387%
- Food & beverage$27,7123%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 168 | $327,586 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 117 | $267,612 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 95 | $161,668 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 72 | $83,400 |
| VB Spine LLC | 8 | $45,740 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 82 | $44,322 |
| Medicrea USA, Corp. | 15 | $26,926 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 50 | $13,380 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 16 | $6,913 |
| Synthes GmbH | 11 | $6,897 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 21 | $2,500 |
| Smaio USA Corporation | 5 | $2,418 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 12 | $2,031 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 2 | $864 |
| Biedermann Motech, Inc. | 4 | $529 |
| Spineology Inc. | 2 | $491 |
| Innovasis Inc | 1 | $408 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 2 | $315 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 3 | $286 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 2 | $265 |
| Acuity Surgical Devices, LLC | 2 | $248 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $215 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $168 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $164 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $142 |
| Abbott | 1 | $136 |
| Smaio SA | 1 | $134 |
| Amgen | 1 | $124 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $102 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $87 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 7 | $82 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 1 | $4 |
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.
- EXPEDIUM$161,516
- MONTEREY AL$161,053
- TRIALTIS$70,048
- TRITANIUM$69,422
- SURGIFLO Hemostatic Matrix$65,827
- SERRATO$63,932
- VIPER$59,339
- CONDUIT$59,101
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$57,397
- DERMABOND PRINEO$53,812
- STRATAFIX$53,812
- VICRYL$53,812
- ES2$53,203
- AERO$52,069
- XIA$39,656
- Mariner$31,373
- Mariner Deformity$31,122
- PASS-LP$26,876
- AIRO$21,000
- MESA SPINAL SYSTEM$20,034
How this compares
$996,383 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 14 | $167 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 15 | $156 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Sacramento
- Hyun BaeSanta Monica$56.8M
- Choll KimSan Diego$4M
- Stacey BedermanOrange$3.7M
- Gregory Mundisla Jolla$3.3M
- Paul SlosarDaly City$3.1M
- Babak Barcohanavan Nuys$2.9M
- Neelakantan AnandLos Angeles$2.9M
- Sanjay KhuranaMarina del Rey$2.3M
- Neville AlleyneOceanside$2.2M
- Rick DelamarterSanta Monica$2.2M
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.