Farzad Massoudi, MD
Neurological Surgery · Laguna Hills, CANPI 1437144599
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $744,557 of the $755,711 with a category attached, or 98.5%. Biogennix, LLC accounts for 97.9% of it on its own, with 40 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among neurological 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.
Across 141 payments — averaging $5359.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biogennix, LLC$740K
- Globus Medical$12K
- Spineology Inc.$1K
- Precision Spine, Inc.$508
- Medtronic$294
- Stryker$259
- plus $2K from 35 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$744,55799%
- Consulting fees$1,3080%
- Travel & lodging$5,4521%
- Food & beverage$4,3711%
- Education$230%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Biogennix, LLC | 15 | $739,964 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 40 | $11,616 |
| Spineology Inc. | 4 | $1,079 |
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 3 | $508 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $294 |
| Stryker | 6 | $259 |
| 7d Surgical Inc. | 1 | $223 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $165 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $138 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $127 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 2 | $123 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $113 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $105 |
| Abbott | 5 | $98 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 2 | $71 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 1 | $70 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $68 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $67 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $50 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Omniscient Neurotechnology America Ltd | 1 | $37 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $30 |
| Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Neo Spine USA, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Analogic Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $25 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| GT Medical Technologies, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $18 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $16 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Ossdsign USA Incorporated | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Morpheus$620,299
- SP-FIX$6,476
- Excelsius Robotics System$4,515
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$1,031
- Agilon$962
- Reli ISP System$478
- Agilon Surgical Matrix$447
- aprevo$127
- MazorX - Renaissance$104
How this compares
$755,711 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 773 neurological surgery 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.
Other neurological surgery in Laguna Hills
- Jason LiauwLaguna Hills$590K
- Christopher AmesSan Francisco$7.1M
- Larry KhooLos Angeles$2.8M
- Samy AbdouSan Diego$2.4M
- Bret AbshireMurrieta$2.3M
- William TaylorSan Diego$2.1M
- Tooraj GravoriEncino$2M
- Ali MesiwalaRancho Cucamonga$1.5M
- Joseph OsorioSan Diego$1.3M
- Ian JohnsonFresno$1.3M
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.