Has Frank Yoo, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $604,731 in general payments to Frank Yoo, MD across 215 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 Frank Yoo, 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 Frank Yoo, 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.

Frank Yoo, MD

Neurosurgery · la Jolla, CANPI 1295774545

Payments from drug & device makers

$604,731in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 215 payments — averaging $2812.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Innovasis Inc$552K
Medyssey USA, Inc$13K
Precision Spine, Inc.$9K
Collagen Matrix, Inc$7K
Centinel Spine, LLC$6K
CTL Medical Corporation$3K
plus $15K from 45 others

$1,500in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $1500.00 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.

GS Solutions, Inc.$2K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$441,13973%
Consulting fees$48,8288%
Speaking & faculty fees$80,10713%
Travel & lodging$29,0065%
Food & beverage$5,1201%
Gifts$5300%

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
Innovasis Inc	57	$551,593
Medyssey USA, Inc	4	$13,219
Precision Spine, Inc.	6	$9,051
Collagen Matrix, Inc	3	$7,000
Centinel Spine, LLC	9	$6,034
CTL Medical Corporation	9	$2,990
The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education	3	$2,488
Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc.	1	$2,400
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	12	$2,294
Abbott	10	$1,188
Nexxt Spine LLC	9	$1,163
Spineart USA Inc	3	$773
Globus Medical	5	$727
Solco Biomedical Corporation	2	$450
Boston Scientific	9	$413
Camber Spine Technologies LLC	7	$402
Axonics, Inc.	4	$282
Medtronic(2 entities)	8	$264
Stryker	3	$245
Kerecis Limited	4	$227
Si-bone, Inc.	7	$198
Nevro Corp.	3	$188
Carlsmed, Inc.	1	$139
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$120
Zimmer Biomet	2	$79
Livanova USA, Inc.	3	$75
Microtransponder, Inc.	1	$72
Aegis Spine, Inc.	1	$59
Alphatec Spine, Inc	3	$54
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$45
Intrinsic Therapeutics	1	$44
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	2	$36
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	1	$31
Eisai Inc.	2	$31
Cerapedics Inc.	1	$28
Pfizer	1	$27
Monteris Medical Corporation	1	$26
Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$25
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$25
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	1	$25
Bristol Myers Squibb	1	$24
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$23
Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$21
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$20
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$20
Ceribell, Inc.	1	$19
Blueprint Medicines Corporation	1	$19
Foundation Medicine, Inc.	1	$16
Seagen Inc.	1	$15
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$14
Secura Bio, Inc.	1	$12

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.

AXHA$373,285
AX$67,854
FORTOS-C$5,875
REFORM HA SCREW SYSTEM$4,500
VAULT C ACDF SYSTEM$4,500
Reform Ti Modular Pedicle Screw System$3,000
Raphael Pedicle Screw System$2,902
Dakota Standalone ACDF System$2,000
COFLEX INTERLAMINAR TECHNOLOGY, 10MM$1,834
PROCLAIM$1,020
Vault 2C Cervical System$1,000
Nexxt Spine Technology$847
COFIX IMPLANT 10 MM$703
FORTILINK-L IBF SYSTEM WITH TETRAFUSE 3D TECHNOLOGY$703
FORTILINK CAGES WITH TIPLUS TECHNOLOGY$703
ARAI SURGICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM$703
Excelsius - GPS$569
CERVICAL VAULT C SYSTEM$500
Kerecis SurgiClose$429
4CIS CHIRON SPINAL FIXATION SYSTEM$300

How this compares

$604,731 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 25 neurosurgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$100,233

Medicare patients

140

Services billed

305

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
Gabapentin	36	$362
Methylprednisolone	14	$76

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurosurgery in la Jolla

Doris WangSan Francisco$198K
Anthony DigiorgioGreenbrae$74K
Line JacquesSan Francisco$32K
Majid RahimifarBakersfield$30K
James TateRedding$15K
Kenneth BlumenfeldSan Jose$3K
Stephen MendenhallVacaville$2K
Ezequiel GoldschmidtNewport Beach$1K
Moris SenegorStockton$1K
Azim LaiwallaLos Angeles$975

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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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