Hai le, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Sacramento, CANPI 1447665310
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $83,938 of the $113,921 with a category attached, or 73.7%. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 45.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $51,586 and has fallen 51.1% since, to $25,247 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery 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 204 payments — averaging $558.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$51K
- Carlsmed, Inc.$30K
- VB Spine LLC$12K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$6K
- Globus Medical$5K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$2K
- plus $8K from 18 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $22,250 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.
- Carlsmed, Inc.$45K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$83,93874%
- Travel & lodging$20,24218%
- Food & beverage$9,7429%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 27 | $51,433 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 41 | $29,658 |
| VB Spine LLC | 9 | $12,425 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 9 | $5,723 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 46 | $4,836 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 16 | $2,151 |
| Synthes GmbH | 3 | $1,897 |
| Spineology Inc. | 12 | $1,291 |
| Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $919 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $643 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 6 | $545 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 5 | $505 |
| Medtronic | 6 | $443 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $418 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 5 | $215 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $140 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $119 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $95 |
| Evolution Surgical, Inc | 1 | $61 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $22 |
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.
- aprevo$29,257
- OZARK CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$26,000
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$18,525
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$16,049
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$13,000
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$13,000
- Vulcan Spinal System$12,262
- Battalion TLIF - PC$3,750
- AIRO$1,950
- XLIF$1,499
- Other - Miscellaneous$1,253
- TLIF$1,190
- Mariner Deformity$1,093
- 7D Surgical System$1,018
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$1,001
- Xvision$654
- Excelsius - GPS$581
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$500
- HemoBlast Bellows$418
- UNID_PASS$295
How this compares
$113,921 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 11 | $62 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Sacramento
- Stephen HowellSacramento$9.4M
- Christopher KreulenSacramento$3.8M
- Alan HiraharaSacramento$3.4M
- Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
- Robert GorabOrange$13.6M
- Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
- Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
- Nirav AminPlacentia$5.6M
- Tom NorrisSan Francisco$5.3M
- Jay LiebermanLos Angeles$4.8M
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.