RxDoctor Payments Data

Erik Zeegen, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Tarzana, CANPI 1427039437

Payments from drug & device makers

$409,239in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 265 payments — averaging $1544.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Zimmer Biomet$383K
  • Smith+Nephew$13K
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$9K
  • Johnson & Johnson$3K
  • Stryker$133
  • Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$120
  • plus $74 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Royalty or licence$72,52718%
  • Consulting fees$135,34733%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$10,9383%
  • Travel & lodging$35,3819%
  • Food & beverage$4,3421%
  • Education$150,70537%

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
Zimmer Biomet237$383,276
Smith+Nephew14$13,105
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.2$9,164
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)6$3,369
Stryker1$133
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.1$120
Innovation Technologies Inc1$37
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.1$22
Dynasplint Systems Inc.1$15
Radlink, Inc1$0

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

$409,239 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
$484,648
Medicare patients
841
Services billed
1,858

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
Celecoxib28$595
Gabapentin14$459
Meloxicam107$340
Amoxicillin180$283
Oxycodone Hcl18$144
Cephalexin12$115
Clindamycin Hcl17$86
Tramadol Hcl16$84

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Tarzana

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