Greg Khounganian
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Encino, CANPI 1750560389
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by other: $1,052,447 of the $1,068,903 with a category attached, or 98.5%. Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. accounts for 98.5% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $977,963 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $667 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 51 payments — averaging $20,959 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$1.1M
- Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc.$12K
- Abbott$1K
- Centinel Spine, LLC$1K
- Spineart USA Inc$500
- Nevro Corp.$376
- plus $985 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,9501%
- Food & beverage$5,5061%
- Other$1,052,44798%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 3 | $1,052,447 |
| Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc. | 7 | $11,844 |
| Abbott | 19 | $1,497 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 9 | $1,253 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 1 | $500 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $376 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 2 | $320 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $195 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $167 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $154 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| Renovis Surgical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $58 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, 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.
- Fibulink$75,062
- Penta SCS Leads$663
- PRODISC C$638
- FlareHawk$320
- STALIF C-Ti$259
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$252
- Neuromodulation Dspsbls and Accs$170
- Magellan$167
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$160
- INTELLIS$154
- PRODISC L$137
- PRODISC C VIVO$130
- Omnia$125
- XLIF$112
How this compares
$1,068,903 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.
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Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Encino
- Hyun BaeSanta Monica$56.8M
- Choll KimSan Diego$4M
- Stacey BedermanOrange$3.7M
- Gregory Mundisla Jolla$3.3M
- Paul SlosarDaly City$3.1M
- Babak Barcohanavan Nuys$2.9M
- Neelakantan AnandLos Angeles$2.9M
- Sanjay KhuranaMarina del Rey$2.3M
- Neville AlleyneOceanside$2.2M
- Rick DelamarterSanta Monica$2.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.