George Singer
Surgery · Torrance, CANPI 1316175649
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 97.5% of the total across 66 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 27 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $1,806.
Across 66 payments — averaging $25.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$297
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$255
- AbbVie$135
- Vioptix Inc$104
- Stryker$91
- Ceribell, Inc.$77
- plus $746 from 21 others
Across 41 payments — averaging $12,709 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.
- Pfizer$421K
- AstraZeneca$54K
- Octapharma USA, Inc.$45K
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$1K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$241%
- Speaking & faculty fees$191%
- Food & beverage$1,66398%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 8 | $297 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 9 | $255 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 9 | $135 |
| Vioptix Inc | 2 | $104 |
| Stryker | 2 | $91 |
| Ceribell, Inc. | 2 | $77 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $76 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $60 |
| Teleflex LLC | 3 | $57 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 3 | $52 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $46 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $36 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $35 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $33 |
| Acell, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Medivance, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Activ Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $25 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Irras USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $17 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$1,706 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 2,363 surgery providers in California.
Other surgery in Torrance
- Timothy ChuterSan Francisco$8.8M
- Santiago HorganSan Diego$2.8M
- Rock LiuHayward$1.6M
- David LouriePasadena$1.4M
- Andrea PakulaThousand Oaks$1.4M
- Siew-Ming LeeFresno$1.3M
- Beemen KhalilPalo Alto$1.1M
- John LiphamLos Angeles$942K
- Alexander NedopilLodi$682K
- Barry GardinerSan Ramon$602K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.