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Erik Schnaser, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Rancho Mirage, CANPI 1538340195

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $750,300 of the $947,752 with a category attached, or 79.2%. Stryker accounts for 92.2% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$947,752in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 951 payments — averaging $996.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Stryker$874K
  • Smith+Nephew$38K
  • Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$29K
  • Zimmer Biomet$6K
  • Avanos Medical$268
  • Vertex$188
  • plus $612 from 10 others
$336,226in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 39 payments — averaging $8621.17 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.

  • Limacorporate S.p.a.$266K
  • Smith+Nephew$70K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$750,30079%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$56,5506%
  • Travel & lodging$114,27912%
  • Food & beverage$26,5903%
  • Education$340%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Stryker848$873,591
Smith+Nephew44$37,792
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated30$28,875
Zimmer Biomet13$6,427
Avanos Medical2$268
Vertex3$188
Conformis, Inc.2$183
Orthalign Inc1$131
VB Spine LLC1$94
Johnson & Johnson1$71
Medacta USA, Inc.1$52
Arthrex1$22
Bioventus LLC1$20
Trevena, Inc.1$17
Davol Inc.1$14
Illuminoss Medical, Inc.1$8

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

$947,752 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$640,386
Medicare patients
687
Services billed
1,904

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Celecoxib88$4,524
Famotidine11$79
Ibuprofen14$78
Prednisone25$57
Amoxicillin14$23

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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