Hai le, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Sacramento, CANPI 1447665310
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 206 payments — averaging $769.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Carlsmed, Inc.$74K
- Stryker$51K
- VB Spine LLC$12K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$6K
- Globus Medical$5K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$2K
- plus $8K from 18 others
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 43 | $74,158 |
| Stryker | 27 | $51,433 |
| 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
$158,421 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$14.5M
- Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
- Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
- Peter NewtonSan Diego$7M
- Nirav AminPlacentia$5.8M
- Tom NorrisSan Francisco$5.3M
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.