Has Hyun Bae received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $56,826,685 in general payments to Hyun Bae across 508 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Hyun Bae did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Hyun Bae come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Hyun Bae

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Santa Monica, CANPI 1528006731

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by other: $51,084,738 of the $56,826,685 with a category attached, or 89.9%. Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. accounts for 66.9% of it on its own, with 37 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $47,752,908 and has fallen 96.4% since, to $1,735,245 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$56,826,685in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 508 payments — averaging $111,864 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$38M
Smith+Nephew$16.4M
Spinal Elements, Inc.$610K
Zimmer Biomet$546K
Prosidyan, Inc$436K
Globus Medical$434K
plus $373K from 32 others

$3,686,385in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 157 payments — averaging $23,480 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.

Spineart USA Inc$1.2M
Spineart SA$1.2M
Spinal Elements, Inc.$706K
Globus Medical$293K
Pfizer$159K
Intrinsic Therapeutics$63K
plus $65K from 2 others

$2,585,818in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 8 payments — averaging $323,227 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

Overture Orthopaedics$2.6M
Spine Wave, Inc.$0
Prosidyan, Inc$0
Engage Uni, LLC$0

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$5,591,79010%
Consulting fees$119,4270%
Travel & lodging$17,2460%
Food & beverage$13,3030%
Gifts$1630%
Entertainment$190%
Other$51,084,73890%

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.	49	$38,024,841
Smith+Nephew	17	$16,402,577
Spinal Elements, Inc.	16	$610,398
Zimmer Biomet	25	$545,565
Prosidyan, Inc	11	$436,243
Globus Medical(2 entities)	130	$434,017
Zimvie Inc.	39	$186,467
Highridge Medical LLC	20	$113,635
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	36	$45,708
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	79	$9,650
Medacta USA, Inc.	20	$5,945
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	3	$3,030
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$2,800
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	18	$2,382
Surgical Theater. Inc.	4	$560
Stryker	5	$363
Camber Spine Technologies LLC	2	$303
Spineart USA Inc	3	$254
Alphatec Spine, Inc	2	$208
Engage Uni, LLC	1	$201
Spinal Surgical Strategies, Inc.	2	$176
Carlsmed, Inc.	1	$151
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	1	$139
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	1	$138
Baylis Medical Company Inc	1	$136
Overture Orthopaedics	3	$126
Exsomed Corporation	1	$113
Cerapedics Inc.	1	$105
Centinel Spine, LLC	2	$94
Medtronic(2 entities)	3	$86
Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical)	1	$59
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$52
Icotec Medical Inc.	1	$44
Xtant Medical Inc	1	$42
Baxter Healthcare	1	$27
Vertex	1	$20
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	1	$15
Assertio Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$14

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.

Engage Partial Knee System$16,402,778
Fibulink$2,447,654
FIBERGRAFT BG Morsels$935,574
FIBERGRAFT Aeridyan Matrix$935,199
SYNAPSE$775,643
LUCENT XP$432,257
Mobi-C$382,022
Virage$298,939
Fibergraft BG Matrix$224,439
BG Matrix$211,332
BG Putty$211,332
BG Morsels$211,332
Affix$204,815
LUCENT$178,141
RELINE$137,036
MOBI-C PLUG & FIT US$111,779
Modulus$75,076
Precept$74,837
ExcelsiusGPS$48,703
MOUNTAINEER$28,979

How this compares

$56,826,685 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.

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Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Santa Monica

Rick DelamarterSanta Monica$2.2M
Elizabeth LordSanta Monica$210K
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

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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