Has Gene Syn, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,507 in general payments to Gene Syn, MD across 59 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 Gene Syn, 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 Gene Syn, 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.

Gene Syn, MD

Colon & Rectal Surgery · Laguna Hills, CANPI 1487842720

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,232 of the $1,507 with a category attached, or 81.7%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Axonics, Inc. at 59.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $568 and has fallen 80.8% since, to $109 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for colon & rectal surgery clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $3,373.

$1,507in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 59 payments — averaging $25.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Axonics, Inc.$903
Medtronic$343
Biotissue Holdings Inc.$45
Baudax Bio Inc.$42
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$38
Boston Scientific$36
plus $100 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$27218%
Food & beverage$1,23282%
Education$30%

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
Axonics, Inc.	28	$903
Medtronic(2 entities)	19	$343
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	2	$45
Baudax Bio Inc.	2	$42
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	2	$38
Boston Scientific	2	$36
Activ Surgical, Inc.	1	$34
Vertex	1	$30
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$22
Convatec Inc.	1	$15

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.

Axonics$402

How this compares

$1,507 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 176 colon & rectal surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$116,236

Medicare patients

232

Services billed

559

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
Hydrocortisone	81	$932
Procto-Med HcHydrocortisone	38	$538
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	41	$467

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Phillip FleshnerWest Hollywood$95K
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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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