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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $11,400 in general payments to Eric Lin, MD across 218 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 Lin, 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 Lin, 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 Lin, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Fullerton, CANPI 1053510099

Payments from drug & device makers

$11,400in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 218 payments — averaging $52.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$4K
Globus Medical$2K
Johnson & Johnson$1K
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$796
Amgen$506
Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus$420
plus $3K from 36 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$2,50022%
Travel & lodging$8407%
Food & beverage$7,94470%
Education$1161%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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	26	$3,528
Globus Medical(2 entities)	43	$1,904
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	35	$1,077
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	5	$796
Amgen	18	$506
Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus	5	$420
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	1	$386
Neo Spine USA, Inc.	5	$225
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	4	$222
Si-bone, Inc.	9	$200
Cerapedics Inc.	2	$183
Spineart USA Inc	6	$183
Medtronic(2 entities)	7	$162
Centinel Spine, LLC	2	$146
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	5	$130
Baxter Healthcare	3	$92
Intrinsic Therapeutics	3	$89
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	3	$89
Spineology Inc.	1	$89
Bioventus LLC	4	$88
Biocomposites Inc	3	$80
Forte Bio-pharma LLC	2	$80
Radius Health, Inc.	3	$74
Augmedics Inc.	2	$66
Xtant Medical Inc	2	$59
4web, Inc.	1	$58
Zimmer Biomet	2	$57
Alphatec Spine, Inc	1	$51
Acuity Surgical Devices, LLC	1	$50
Misonix Inc	2	$42
Boston Scientific	1	$34
BREG, Inc	1	$28
Smith+Nephew	1	$27
AbbVie	1	$25
Spinal Elements, Inc.	1	$24
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	1	$23
Biohorizons Implant Systems Inc.	1	$22
Biosense Webster, Inc.	1	$20
Nevro Corp.	1	$20
Carbofix Spine Inc	1	$20
Trevena, Inc.	1	$17
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	1	$9

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

$11,400 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$307,279

Medicare patients

253

Services billed

1,221

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	38	$400
Methylprednisolone	14	$59
Tramadol Hcl	12	$42
Tizanidine Hcl	13	$34
Lorazepam	12	$5

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Fullerton

Hyun BaeSanta Monica$62.2M
Choll KimSan Diego$4M
Stacey BedermanOrange$3.7M
Gregory Mundisla Jolla$3.5M
Neelakantan AnandLos Angeles$3.2M
Paul SlosarDaly City$3.1M
Babak Barcohanavan Nuys$2.9M
Rick DelamarterSanta Monica$2.3M
Sanjay KhuranaMarina del Rey$2.3M
Neville AlleyneOceanside$2.2M

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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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