Eric Larson, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Santa Monica, CANPI 1487016432
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (48.9%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 15 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.5%. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,350 and has fallen 68.8% since, to $733 in 2025.
Across 42 payments — averaging $128.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Evolution Surgical, Inc$1K
- Axogen$1K
- Arthrex$849
- Saxum Surgical, Inc.$828
- Stryker$597
- Acumed LLC$208
- plus $625 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,55929%
- Food & beverage$2,63749%
- Education$1,20022%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Evolution Surgical, Inc | 2 | $1,213 |
| Axogen | 4 | $1,077 |
| Arthrex | 8 | $849 |
| Saxum Surgical, Inc. | 6 | $828 |
| Stryker | 6 | $597 |
| Acumed LLC | 4 | $208 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $188 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 2 | $137 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $81 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $53 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $45 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $35 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $16 |
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.
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$1,059
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$1,059
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$1,059
- VARIAX$455
- Geminus$188
- Align$188
- IJS$188
- Implate$188
- ACUMED$151
- STELLARIS ELITE$112
- enVista MX60 IOL$112
- Trulign IOL$112
- Crystalens Accommodating IOL (AT-52AO)$112
How this compares
$5,396 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 76 surgery of the hand 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ibuprofen | 14 | $75 |
| Meloxicam | 12 | $53 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery of the hand in Santa Monica
- Bauback SafaSan Francisco$172K
- Emily Perezla Mirada$56K
- Joshua GluckVentura$26K
- Howard SutkinLos Gatos$22K
- Aaron BergerOakland$14K
- Nicole ConklingOrange$14K
- Marie DuschSanta Maria$11K
- Andre IshakOxnard$11K
- Alfonso CamberosSan Diego$10K
- James ColemanOrange$9K
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.