Has Hyun Bae received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $62,200,837 in general payments to Hyun Bae across 645 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

$62,200,837in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 645 payments — averaging $96,435 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
Overture Orthopaedics$2.6M
Spineart USA Inc$1.2M
Spineart SA$1.1M
Globus Medical$727K
plus $2.2M from 36 others

$898,051in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $32,073 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.

Spinal Elements, Inc.$706K
Spineart SA$120K
Spineart USA Inc$65K
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$7K

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
Overture Orthopaedics	4	$2,585,944
Spineart USA Inc	5	$1,155,468
Spineart SA	23	$1,060,227
Globus Medical(2 entities)	202	$727,095
Spinal Elements, Inc.	16	$610,398
Zimmer Biomet	25	$545,565
Prosidyan, Inc	14	$436,243
Zimvie Inc.	39	$186,467
Pfizer	5	$158,895
Highridge Medical LLC	20	$113,635
Intrinsic Therapeutics	6	$63,144
Medtronic(2 entities)	24	$57,863
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
Alphatec Spine, Inc	2	$208
Engage Uni, LLC	3	$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
Exsomed Corporation	1	$113
Cerapedics Inc.	1	$105
Centinel Spine, LLC	2	$94
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
Spine Wave, Inc.	2	$0

How this compares

$62,200,837 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$2.3M
Choll KimSan Diego$4M
Stacey BedermanOrange$3.7M
Gregory Mundisla Jolla$3.5M
Neelakantan AnandLos Angeles$3.2M
Paul SlosarDaly City$3.1M
Babak Barcohanavan Nuys$2.9M
Sanjay KhuranaMarina del Rey$2.3M
Neville AlleyneOceanside$2.2M
Joseph GorekOakland$1.9M

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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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