Hirsh Kaveeshvar
Sports Medicine · Valencia, CANPI 1396004594
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 134 payments — averaging $55.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vertiflex, Inc.$1K
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$1K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Nevro Corp.$1K
- Abbott$454
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$445
- plus $1K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,24030%
- Food & beverage$5,13370%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 10 | $1,412 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 17 | $1,365 |
| Boston Scientific | 32 | $1,297 |
| Nevro Corp. | 16 | $1,144 |
| Abbott | 14 | $454 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 4 | $445 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 7 | $368 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 4 | $242 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 8 | $172 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $134 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $79 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 4 | $61 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $35 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 2 | $33 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $25 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| USWM, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Stryker | 1 | $16 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
How this compares
$7,373 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 662 sports medicine providers in California.
Other sports medicine in Valencia
- Neal ElattracheLos Angeles$51M
- Nathaniel CohenLos Gatos$6.4M
- Thomas KnappSanta Monica$2.5M
- Seth ShermanStanford$1.8M
- Michael FreehillStanford$1.7M
- Deryk JonesSan Carlos$1.6M
- Allan MishraMenlo Park$1.5M
- Heinz Hoeneckela Jolla$1.4M
- Marc SafranPalo Alto$1.2M
- Stephan YacoubianBurbank$1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.